A Dark Picture | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 29, 1867

A Dark Picture.

THE apostle Paul, prophetically describing “the last days,” assures us that men will be “without natural affection,” and “without self-control,” or “incontinent.” 2 Tim. iii, 1–3. The following picture, drawn by the N. Y. Express, of the moral condition of one of the great cities of Christendom, has some striking points of resemblance to the prophecy. Read and ponder.—Advent Herald.

Divorces are getting frightfully common in this country; and in order to add to their numbers, a bill making habitual drunkenness for two years a sufficient cause of divorce, has passed the Vermont Legislature. The decrees for divorce within a few days, in this city, make an aggregate of seventeen absolute divorces, on the ground of unfaithfulness, and four judgments of separation from bed and board, on account of cruelty, inhuman treatment, neglect, &c., on the part of the husbands. The number of similar cases pending in the different courts of this city at the present time, is between seven and eight hundred. Facts like these tell terribly upon the condition of society, and especially against very early marriages, which are often the fruits of mutual dissatisfaction and disgust, and end in separation and divorce. To separate by law, for life, man and wife for drunkenness, when a woman deliberately takes a drunken man for her husband, is but paying a high premium for crime, and adding to the original offence.