Article May 14, 1904 Issue

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It has been pretty generally assumed that the modern industrial development, enormously increasing the temptations to crime, has greatly increased crime. And there has been much bemoaning the supposed fact that education was not doing what had been expected from it in the way of promoting morality. But now comes France with the first really thorough and accurate statistics on this subject; and at once it appears that though the newspapers with their telegraphic services and their corps of reporters have been giving the world more and more news of crime, crime has been steadily and rapidly decreasing.

How could it be otherwise? Never before was so large a part of the civilized world so healthy, so well fed, so well housed, so hopeful, so enlightened, above all, so regularly employed. It therefore follows as the night the day that never before was so large a part of it honest and, in the broad sense, moral. The day now dawning is the brightest humanity has ever seen, but by no means the brightest it shall see.—Saturday Evening Post.

Religion is a source of satisfaction superior to any other in human life, but, like all things of a high character, it requires time and experience to show its full value. . . . Much of the religion of man has been under the impulse of fear and has been spoiled by errors and superstitions, yet its original, deep, and essential satisfaction is not altogether lost. Men cling to its remnants as their dearest hope. When religion is found in its pure and uncontaminated form, or made known in its freshness and power, as in Christ's manifestation of religion as a revelation of grace and love from our heavenly Father, it becomes the supreme, the sweet and precious thing in life.—The Watchman.

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