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An Evil Tendency

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 5, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 6.

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An Evil Tendency.

By Dr. Prime

It cannot be truthfully denied that there is a tendency in our civilization toward the enjoyment of cruel and bloody games. If true, it is a bad sign. The decline of Roman strength and power was signalized by such exhibitions, where the lives of men and beasts were flung away in horrid combats to make sport for the people. Reverence for life is one of the highest types of Christian civilization; not human life only, but for everything that lives. And our gentle poet Cowper was not morbid when he said he would not have for a friend the man who would needlessly tread on a worm. Sensitiveness to the feelings of other people is a mark of high birth and breeding, and only the low, coarse, and brutal despise the sentiment. Gentleness is one of the attributes of real greatness.—Dr. Prime.