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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 5, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 1.

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They are Wide Open.

THE catalogue of crime for 1865, presents an appalling record. Murder, robbery, violence, drunkenness, immorality, defaulting, and a general looseness in society, seems to be the order of the day. May God in mercy pity his cause, and deliver his children from the general defection. An eastern religious journal says:
“The floodgates of vice and crime. Never perhaps, so widely opened before, in this country. And, alas! how they are thronged! And by all classes of society—the old, the middle aged, the young. The sight is pitiable to behold; it is truly heart sickening.
“Look at the crowd of reeling drunkards—an army of men little less than that which saved the Republic. Read the annals of crime of every possible description and of the deepest turpitude. Forgery, robbery, and murder are the order of the day. The Devil seems to be let loose, and hell to be mad to devour the sons of men.”