Perilous Times | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 21, 1882

Perilous Times.

The times in which we live are ominous. Infidelity and licentiousness are rampant. Our country is flooded with a literature contaminating and demoralizing in its character and tendency. Formalism or mere sensationalism seems to take the place of the sound, healthful religion taught in the word of God. Drunkenness and Sabbath-breaking, domestic infidelities and immoralities, thefts, robberies, rapes, and murders, are things of daily occurrence. Indifferentism is widely and fearfully prevalent, doing more harm, perhaps, than is done by openly avowed infidelity. We are living in the days of which the apostle spoke in his second letter to Timothy, chapter 3. Look on that dark picture, study it closely, then look around and see how exactly the prediction is being fulfilled. Can any man deny

fulfilment that is so plainly before his eyes? Surely not. Then let every man and every woman and every child that loves the right, the true, and the good, and desires the prevalence of the same, ask themselves, each for himself, What can I do, what ought I to do, in opposition to the swelling tide of ignorance, indifference, and viciousness that threatens to deluge the land? Surely no true patriot, philanthropist, and Christian can allow himself or herself to be indifferent to the existing state of things, or to what must inevitably be the result unless the evil is changed.—St. Louis Christian Advocate.