p. 9 | Moral Decline in France

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Feb 12, 1914

Moral Decline in France

OF the moral decline in the French nation a recent number of the Missionary Review of the World says:—

A group of Frenchmen declare that a brutal appetite for pleasure has been intensified in France; that scandals, crimes, suicides, and madness have multiplied. They have posted statements to this effect, with reasons for the decline of their national power, on walls throughout their country. They state that in the past few years more than 350,000,000 obscene papers and pamphlets and 10,000,000 filthy postal cards and photographs have been circulated in France. Besides these, it is said that thousands and thousands of excitements to debauchery from music halls, cafés chantants, and realistic plays, have contributed to this awful condition.

If we sow the wind, we shall reap the whirlwind.