Our National Shame.—The Constitution, of Atlanta, Ga., in its issue of December 20 calls crime our national shame, and says, "Statistics upon statistics have been quoted showing impressively an increase in criminal activity proportionally greater than the increase of population, and in all these figures crimes involving the taking of, or the attempt to take, human life predominate." The Constitution declares that three-fourths of all the prisoners in Georgia penitentiaries are there for crimes against human life, while the penitentiary records make no mention of the many murderers or would-be murderers who escape detection or arrest. The Constitution further declares: "The truth is, if such conditions are to continue, life is nowhere safe. No citizen can know at what moment he will become the victim of the pistol 'toter' or the assassin." This from a secular paper. How truly it accords with the word of God which declares that the latter days will be as the days of Noah; and in the days of Noah, we are told, the earth was filled with violence.