The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

its course. These things fill the heart of the
Christian with sadness, and they stand as a fact to
be by all true followers of the Master deeply
lamented and deplored. For nigh two thousand
years the religion of Jesus Christ has been striving
with all the power of the Holy Ghost to do its
beneficent work upon the hearts of the human
family. In view, however, of the awful crimes still
filling the earth, it seems hard to believe that much
has been accomplished. This is no reflection on the
gospel, but on those who reject the gospel.
But brutality is not confined to this class of
cases. A young man, everywhere reported to be
“pious,” attends a prayer-meeting; after which he
waylays his rival in a love affair, beats out his
brains, and throws his body into a creek.
A man conceals a knife, with a rapier-like point
in a bundle which he carries under his arm, and
starts out walking in a crowded thoroughfare,
nudging people with the bundle purposely, and
seriously wounding them as he goes along. In a
State Refuge Home for Women horrible cruelties
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