The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-10-27

derers in every hundred are punished.
The remaining ninety-eight escape
absolutely free. In many of our states
the proportion of convictions is only
half as great. In recent census OF
crime, digesting the nation as whole,
the statement was made that in only
one and three-tenths per cent of our
homicides do we secure a conviction
Chicago averages 11S murders
year. In the same space of time, Paris
records only fifteen murders and at
| tempted murders. London, four times
the size Of Chicago, has only twenty
murders. Chicago alone records al
most three times more murders in a
year than the whole Of the British EN-
pire. We are shocked at the terrible
loss Of life in war but are very com.
placent over the thousands being shot,
strangled. poisoned, stabbed, or beaten
with club or sand bag every year
in our peaceful nation. More people
are murdered In this country in a sin
gle twelve months than are killed on
all our railroads combined. In three
years the victims of our murder cases
total more than the losses of the Brit
ish army in the Boer war.
Under Protection.
I'VE discover that when our poets
and our orators have finished telling
us of our greatness and our glory, we
have fostered wickedness and lawless-
ness as has no other nation in the
world Behind our boosted institu-
tons Of government the thug and the
thief and the assassin are operating
with a vigor and a freedom duplicated
nowhere else in civilization, too often
under police protection. And our
crime, wickedness. and neglect of NOR
ais and religion are steadily growing
at an alarming rate.
I'VE have more homicides every
year than Italy, Austria-Hungary, Bel
GUM, France, England, Ireland, Scot
land, Spain, Holland and Germany CON-
bned. Why is this the case? The an
swer is simple and natural. We may
lead the world in many things. In
the march of civilization as applied to
the protection of public life and public
property, we have fallen wofully be.
hind. We lead in crime and it's protec.
ton and even encouragement. In So
per cent of the homicides of Germany
the guilty person is brought to justice
In Spain the number of convictions is
IS per cent. In France, it is 81 pei
cent; in Italy II per cent, and in Eng
United States only one AID three
tenths per cent are convicted.
Yet Children.
1--WE claim to be full grown, matureC
men, citizens of a Christian country
when in fact we are only undevelopet
men. We are not socialized. We have
not learned how to get into the game
of life and play according to thu
rules. We have not advanced any since
mother kissed our bump to make il
= well. We are children with our fists
still in our eyes.
THE Sabbath, which is necessary t
man and the well-being of society, is
worth holding to. Yet when the at
tempt is made to have men observe
the Sabbath they complain as though
some sacred personal right were bt
ing taken from them. These big
grown-ups are but spoilt children with
their fists still in their eyes.
THE means of grace committed tC
the church are worth holding to. We
need the church house with all fol
which it stands We need the help o.
the preaching service and the com
munion.
Cali the great doctrines of the Bible
are worth while to keep and to prac
tice. The doctrines of sin as the ground
for our salvation is necessary to teach
and to know. Repentance and faith
cannot be dispensed with if we expect
to make Christian men and women
Regeneration, adoption, the witness OF
the Spirit, and sanctification are essen
tia1 to personal salvation from sin and
for human usefulness.
"The individual must hold fast to
personal experience. He must be able
mot to explain all mysteries and to
have all knowledge, but to stand before
man and say "this one thing know
whereas l was blind, now see."
Spiritual Arithmetic.
20. If these things are worth hold
ing they are worth sharing. In fact
we cannot keep them unless we shar,
them. Our Lord teaches a strange
arithmetic, that we multiply our bles
sings by dividing them. The ways o.
spreading His kingdom are as manifold