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Show Editorial (CONTINUED) plat es All these are the beginning of sorrows. When ye therefore shall see th? abomination and desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet; such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and knew n t until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be It appears that the things mentioned above are here now, right at our doors. Whoso readeth, let him understand. ' C. V. Hansen Several times we have come in contact wfth many poor ildrenwho swarm on the pavements and in the gutters of this great city by the big Salt Sea. Just picture a flock of ten children, all small, of one father and mother, poor, dirt-covered, ragged and thinly clad. We have seen them more than once herding themselvs while the parents were out spreeing, without breakfast and with little hope of any dinner. They are so near the center of Zion, or were before they were evicted, that you could step out of one of the big banks and almost touch hands with them. If there is a sadder and more pitiful sight in Salt Lake we do not know of it. Quotes Scripture Editor Progressive Opinion: Permit me to quote a little from the 24th chapter of Matthew. Ma-tthew. There may be those who read your worthy paper, but who do not read much of what the good Old Book has to say: Jesus sat one day on themount of Olives and his disciples came to him and said: Tell us what shall be the sign of .thy coming and of the end of the woild? He answered them and said: Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of war. All these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation phall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there shall be famine and pestilence, and eartquakes, in divers Continued in Next Column |