Widespread Laxity

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 15, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 24.

“Widespread Laxity”

IN discussing the problem of the “war baby,” which in plain English means the illegitimate children of soldiers since the war started, the bishop of Oxford is quoted as saying:

“The controversy indicates a very widespread laxity of sentiment and feeling with regard to sexual matters. I do not doubt in the least that of the two vices, intemperance and immorality, the latter is working incomparably greater havoc. There is also an extraordinary and almost universal laxity of the sanctity of the marriage vow.”

All persons who are alive to the conditions of this world will recognize that the bishop states the truth in regard to social conditions. But do we also recognize the fact that the Lord, when He was here nearly two thousand years ago, told us that the last days would be characterized by the disgusting sexual vices of Sodom? This is one of the large number of signs by which we are to know that we are living very near the close of time. As God overthrew old Sodom and Gomorrah because of their vices in that time, so He will soon destroy the wickedness of this world by the dazzling brightness of the second appearing of Christ in the clouds of heaven. The prophetic voices that are uttering this great truth speak in the strongest, clearest tones. As we value eternal life, we should get ready for the event.