The Plague of Sin by The Moravian

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 17, 1882

The Plague of Sin

By The Moravian

THERE is no question that small-pox is a dreadful disease. Yet there can be no good cause for the senseless alarm and panic that is manifested by some at the prevalence of the plague. Not only does it do no good whatever, but it really is unworthy especially of Christian men and woman. Discretion, caution, prudence,—these it is our duty to exercise at all times; but these never have anything in common with selfish cowardice. No, if there was a little more fear and dread of sin; that worse plague than small-pox, it would be a good deal better. No one seems to mind associating intimately with souls that are all black and blotched with vice. Even tender children are unhesitatingly allowed to go in and out of houses that are hopelessly infected, whose very atmosphere is thick with impurity, profanity, and blasphemy. And people do not think that there is any danger in this. They do not fear "catching" sin. Yet if the truth were known, most forms of sin are more infectious than cholera and small-pox, and also far more fatal. Sin kills vastly more bodies and souls every year than all other diseases together.—The Moravian.