Anarchists and Assassins.
been killed had it not been for the timely assistance of his eighteen-year-old boy, making it necessary for the anarchist-assassin to divide his attentions between the young man and his father. The boy had his body pierced by a bullet, but the chief himself escaped with slight injuries, and succeeded in shooting the anarchist dead. The anarchist, doubtless, represents a very small body of men. But there is a much larger class that are all the time uttering inflaming words against various classes of individuals with whom they do not agree, and this incendiary language is continually creating more and more of this half-crazy, lawless element. But the agitator has not done anything like the evil in the direction of anarchy as the so-called “higher critic,” joined by the antinomians, who have been discrediting the plain teaching of the word of God. Some men will choose to do right because they learn to love the joy of right doing. But the greater majority will become very reckless when they are made to believe that they will never have to meet the Most High God face to face at the bar of eternal judgment and justice. Most of the anarchists are fatalists of the worst type, and are also decidedly infidel if not atheistic. In many instances they may have been brought into this condition by being compelled to observe and deal with the hypocrisies and even cruelties that have been perpetrated in the name of the Christ of God. And here is where the higher intelligence of the age should have met them with the pure Gospel of Christ and showed them the better way. But instead they have been met by the critic that is abroad thruout the world casting discredit upon the Bible. There has been a generation of seed-sowing. The reaping has scarcely commenced.