Winter Sport on the Cairngorms
In the Cairngorms area and elsewhere in the central Highlands, snow again this Winter has drawn hundreds of young men and women to these parts to engage in Winter sports, and what a blot it is upon Scotland, that these activities are engaged in by many over weekends, including the Lord’s Day. Death and exposure have come to some thus engaged. But it is clear that the Lord, in judgment, is permitting this disregard for His holy day. Men will give account of their sins to God ultimately, although they prosper at their will now.
After the Abolition of Hanging
Since the House of Commons agreed to support the Bill for the complete abolition of hanging as the penalty for murder, it is difficult to ignore the number of cases of murder and violence which have occurred in the London area and elsewhere in the country. Of course the recent outbreak of violence may have no relationship to what took place in the House of Commons. Nevertheless, with police officers being shot at and wounded in the exercise of their duty, revolvers and guns being used in Bank raids, and cases of young and old being murdered, it seems that an undesirable sentimentality has overtaken all political parties in the House of Commons. The Scriptures of Truth require the death penalty for the dastardly sin and crime of murder. The question is not whether the death penalty is a deterrent, but is it the requisite punishment to be administered to those who have no regard for human life?