Lax Doctrine and Morals by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1880

Lax Doctrine and Morals

By Editor

Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, is an old-fashioned orthodox Presbyterian. He believes in the Bible and the morality which it inculcates. Some one remarked to him recently that the lines which formerly divided people in regard to religious matters were fading out.

"Yes," said the judge, "and I notice that the nice distinction between right and wrong are going out with them." This is too true. One of the commonest crimes in society to-day is perjury—so common, indeed, that except in very gross cases the courts do not take cognizance of it. And as for ordinary lying, men will practice it to save a postage stamp or car fare. Is there not a marked relation between laxity in doctrine and in morals?