Socialist Gains in France
IN the French elections held on May 10, the Socialists won twenty-nine new seats in the legislature. This will give them in all ninety-seven representatives in the Chamber of Deputies. The Socialists are the intelligent leaders in the discontentment of these times. And if we are political partizans of any kind, we are perhaps spending our time in studying the arguments for and against these movements. But if we are students of the prophetic Word, we can see in all of these agitations the gathering storm which definitely shows that this world will soon be swept by revolutionary forces that will spread anarchy and violence everywhere. These are not mere theories, but they are questions of fact; and the strongest part of it all is that these facts are literally fulfilling prophecy. The leaders in these great movements hopefully expect to reform the world, but the conditions are rapidly getting beyond their control. They may for a time keep ahead of the elements of discontent, and even seem to be guiding them, but the day can not be very far distant when the onrushing flood will sweep everything before it in the wildest kind of disorder and disaster. These things may seem alarming; but it is better to be alarmed now, and enter the only shelter that is provided against this great storm, than to shut our eyes to conditions until the social tempest breaks upon us with its indescribable furies.