Watchword and Truth for April contains an article entitled "The Prevalence of Crime," in which it is boldly affirmed that "every civilized nation of the world, keeping a record of its doings, has been brought face to face with a startling increase of crime; . . . crime, too, of the most abnormal, monstrous, and unnatural character, and it is startling, perplexing, and inexplicable to the students of sociology and of government." Writers and preachers have long heralded the dawn of a millennium of righteousness as just at our doors; but that which has come in its place is as "the pall of darkness that can be felt, at the hour when the sun is expected to rise." The condition of things now facing the statesmen of the day is appalling. Fast as laws are promulgated attempting to remove one evil, other and unexpected evils stand before them with menacing attitude. He who is taught in the Word regarding the manner in which the age shall close, and marking the peculiar characteristics of the present, believes that this abounding prevalence of crime is an indication of the nearing of the end of the age. This does not induce him to slacken his efforts for the present amelioration of the lot of individuals, but it enables him to labor in present sanity and surety, knowing that evil will increase more and more until it shall be destroyed by the glorious advent in power. This prevalence of crime comes as a rude shock to those who have boasted so unceasingly in the culture, progress, and civilization of our times. With a fatuity begotten of self-contemplation, they have denied the doctrine of depravity taught in the Bible, and have proclaimed aloud the immortality, dignity, and divinity of man. What of these things in the light of the serious conclusions now being reached by sane and thoughtful men? It is high time that men learned to appropriate the just estimate of themselves which is placed before their eyes in the Word of God. That being done, there will be some hope that such as see will seek to put themselves in line with the purposes of God, which declare His intent to abolish evil; and doubtless much that men now boast in as progressive civilization will go with it, as utterly unworthy to find a place in His kingdom, "wherein dwelleth righteousness."—The Bible Standard.