THE people of this "fast" age, to express it in the current parlance, are truly going "the pace that kills." This is literally true in almost every phase of modern life. Through contest, competition, and rivalry, men are rushing on to gain championship, supremacy, monopoly, regardless of cost or consequence. For this reason, men in political contests are willing to ruin the reputation of rivals, men of business ambition care not how many competitors are ruined, and in races for advanced time schedules thousands of lives are sacrificed every year in accidents by railroads, ships, automobiles, etc. Referring to this common tendency, the San Francisco News Letter says that more than half the wrecks on the Pacific Coast can be attributed to risking ships in order to save time. Owners demand quick trips, and captains make them by running too fast through fogs or by hugging the shore to shorten distance. It ought to be remembered, but will soon be forgotten, that the recent disaster of the steamer Sirio, off the coast of Spain, was caused by "hugging the shore" to save time. The consequence, aside from financial loss, was the destruction of over three hundred lives. The News Letter truthfully says, "It may be that the time gained makes up for the occasional loss of a ship, when insurance is taken into consideration; but it doesn't compensate for the lives lost." The moral "fast pace" of our day is equally noticeable. The dissipation and fall of the "prodigal son" have many counterparts in this "fast age"—so many that they have almost ceased to be remarkable. It would be well if men, in their haste to get rich, to "make records," and to dominate their fellowmen, would remember that the great day of the Lord also "hasteth greatly." And "that day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers." To this the Lord adds: "And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy; for He shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land." See Zeph. 1:14-18. If men would remember and reflect on these warnings, they would slacken their speed and consider the end of their mad rush for temporary gain. For "who may abide the day of His coming? and who shall stand when He appeareth?" We have the answer through the prophet David: "He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation." Ps. 24:4, 5. In the end it will be found that the time saved by the world's "fast pace" has been time lost.