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GROWING LIKE HELL R ichard Baxter once said, “Lord, if you do not soon come th is world will • grow like hell.” - , Some modernists, who certainly m ust have th e ir eyes fast closed to actual conditions in the. world, are telling us th ere is no need of the Lord coming for the world is fast growing like heaven. But is it? J u st following th e recent ho rro r a t Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Kansas City Jou rnal made comment upon “ th e narrowness of th e margin which today separates civili zation from savagery.” The ou tbu rst a t Tulsa, like other recent outbreaks of mob rule, was abso lutely unjustified and unnecessary. It was simply a m anifestation of th e devilish sp irit of the times, A hysterical girl reported th a t an impudent colored boy had insulted her by tak ing hold of her arm . A yellow -journal rep o rter made a story out of it, a lot of hot-headed white people enlarged on it and resolved to string up the boy. The boy explained satisfactorily to th e police th a t in entering th e elevator which was operated by the girl, he had stubbed his toe and fallen against her. The girl was in no wise injured. As the story was magnified 400 whites gathered a t th e jail where the boy was taken for protection, determ ined to kill him. A group of colored men assembled to protect him should he be taken out. Some rattle-head white man fired a shot and then hell was let loose. F o rty people were killed, 200 wounded, a million and a half worth of property burned to th e ground and 5,000 negroes left homeless and hungry. Firem en were forbidden to tu rn w ater on any of th e burning homes. Officers of th e law were absolutely helpless. Disre gard for law is in th e atmosphere. I t is the an tich rist spirit— th e sp irit of the
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