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The Great Moral Antiseptic

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 22, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 25.

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The Great Moral Antiseptic

“WE must carry them the Bible, the great moral antiseptic.” Thus said Miss Sally McCorkle, as she wrote from Kaul’s lumber camp down in Alabama, where she is circulating Bibles and New Testaments. She thanked God for the privilege of visiting in the mills among white-plague victims, and of putting into their hands the Word of God, and bowing by the bedside of the sick in prayer. In summing up her recent experiences, she says: “If I could put in print the sorrowful tales I have listened to,—stories of wrecked lives, of ruined characters, of broken hearts, and of family ties shattered,—I would paint a picture that would shock the church; but my hand shrinks from the task.” This is all because God’s Holy Word has been forsaken, its principles not interwoven into the daily life. It indeed is the “moral antiseptic.”