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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 26, 1867

DANGERS OF THE AGE.

THE Archbishop of York, in a recent sermon at St. Paul's, thus notices the four chief dangers of our existing high state of civilization: First, The tendency to glory unduly in this material progress, forgetting the real littleness of man. Second, The temptation to seek and trust in riches; to enjoy our possessions, like Dives without thinking of Lazarus lying at our doors,—a danger to which all were liable, the strugglers for wealth as well as the wealthy. Third, the sensuality of the age,—a sensuality peculiar in this respect, that it is generally united with strength and hardihood, the votary of manly exercises by day being also the votary of dissipation by night; a sensuality without softness, none the less perilous because less repulsive. Fourth, The ultimate danger consequent on all this—of living for the present only, of substituting a blind materialism for the realization of the great verities of the eternal world.