The Earth was filled with Violence.
By Editor
"As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man." Luke xvii, 26. One feature of Noah's age of sufficient importance to demand the attention of inspiration, was the violence that then filled the earth. "The earth also was corrupt," says the record, "the earth was filled with violence." See how well the following picture of to-day which we clip from one of our New York exchanges accords with this description: "Crime is rife as ever. Newburgh is in commotion by reason of the finding of the body of a young woman in a plowed field, nearly naked, with the marks of a violent death. Three or four alleged murders have occurred in this city during the past week. The Pittsburg papers record the double murder and robbery of a brother and sister near that city; Baltimore has suffered from mob violence; and every section of our wide country seems suffering from outrage and crime." How much farther down in the scale of moral degradation need the world descend, before it can be said of this age as it was of Noah's, "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." Gen. vi, 7. Reader, if you are a believer in the truths of these last days, and are discerning the signs of the times, and waiting for the consolation of Israel, let these facts encourage you to more diligence and perseverance still! If you are yet careless as to your soul's salvation, and unconscious of the perils of these times, shut not your eyes and steel not your feelings against the mighty weight of evidence which these daily records bear along with them. As God's judgments threatened upon the Antediluvians, drove Noah into the ark; as the impending storm drives the traveler to a place of shelter, so may these things induce you to flee for your life to Him who has promised to hide his people in his pavilion. These are signs which may not be disregarded with impunity.