Statistically speaking

Times are tough: difficult at best

So much hatred: so much unrest

People angry with the world: alarmingly

Go out into the city streets: destroying things

Life holds no value: many are maimed; killed

What has life come to in these last days?

People everywhere seeking greater and greater thrills

There is no love lost between mankind

Are they so wrapped up within themselves?

Are they so very unaware: as to be so totally blind?

Whatever happened to kindness?

Whatever happened to brotherly love?

Ah dear Lord in heaven up above...

Please help those blinded by earthly lusts

Look into their hearts and find what’s lost

Without your blessed love we are so very lost

Ah the dangers that: overcome us

When it is no longer: “In God we trust!”

“Crime of every kind has sky-rocketed

Out of proportion to the growing population

60 percent of criminal cases go unsolved

Only one crime in 12 reaches a court sentence

The police chief of London says that

Last year was the worse year of the century

One boy in six is sooner or later referred to a court

40 percent of all male children living in the USA

Will be arrested for non-traffic offences

In many cities, women are afraid to go out after dark

Rapes, assaults, sadistic violence and robberies are sky-rocketing”

This was all written in 1966. 50 years ago.

The closing years of the ill-fated Kingdom of Israel were

Marked with violence and bloodshed such as had never

Been witnessed even in the worst periods of

Strife and unrest under the house of Ahab...

King after king was assassinated to make way

For others ambitious to rule

Prophets and Kings page 279

Will we ever learn?