The World Growing Better?

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 26, 1908

The World Growing Better?

SOME professed teachers of the truth are shutting their eyes to the actual condition of things in the world, as observed by unprejudiced persons, and are declaring that the world is growing better, and that the church was never so pure as at the present time. Where is the evidence? Is it in the increase of crime? Is it in the wide-spread corruption in public and private life? Is it in the uncontrolled and uncontrollable worldly spirit which is so manifest in the church? Is it in the repudiation of nearly every one of the doctrines of the apostolic church and the substitution of scientific and philosophical devisings? Only those who have fully committed themselves to a creed which they feel in duty bound to defend at all hazards could pretend to believe that the record of the world’s doings indicates spiritual improvement year by year. And yet this very claim is one of the signs that we are living in the last days. They are now saying “peace and safety.” The impending event is “sudden destruction,” according to the Word of God.