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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 14, 1913

Perilous Times

Bishop A. W. Wilson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in a sermon in Savannah, Georgia, on December 2, declared that “old Rome in her worst days never harbored such conditions of vice as are prevalent in our highest social circles to-day.” He said, “Never at any period of the world’s history has the moral strata been so thin, or so low. The world is beset to-day with more insane theories and philosophies, more hypocritical creed than ever before. The advance of science and philosophy, and the study of infinite subjects connected with the creation of the earth, are imperiling the religious welfare of the world.” The bishop further declared that “scientific processes will never discover the hidden secrets of the universe, the mysteries which pass understanding.”