Heart failure both physically and morally is seizing thousands of victims. Little wonder that suicides are increasing at such an alarming rate. And well they may. Confidence between man and man has disappeared. Friendships have become barren formalities, little more than selfish conveniences.
Human compassion is no more.
Conscience is dead, and men are giving up in hopeless despair as they discern still worse evils presaged by present-day conditions. Feverish eyes are moving to and fro in dread expectation of the approaching total collapse of civilization. In Scripture the powers of nature are frequently used symbolically. Mark the growing popularity of a revolutionary Socialism. Witness the revolution in Portugal, and the yet more recent revolutions in Mexico, China and Russia.