The Minor Keys | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 17, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 45.

The Minor Keys.

San Francisco papers have been jubilant over the favorable results of the recent festival. They have been careful not to tell us of the sad results that followed. They are jubilant in telling of the 250-mile automobile race in which one driver drove his car in 3 hours, 59 minutes, and 18 seconds, an average speed of more than 64 miles an hour. They do not tell us, however, of the lives that were snuffed out at the same time. They tell us of the hilarious time enjoyed in drinking and carousing, but they do not tell us of the lost characters and reputations. The true standard by which to measure such a thing is the righteousness of God. The true place and time to estimate such great doings is at the bar of God. Men can only weigh them now by the principles involved. All the exhibition part could have been conducted on a sane basis, but in the excesses of men and women morality oftentimes is thrown to the wind. One society paper remarks: “There will be wounded hearts and possibly wrecked homes left in the wash of the Portola festival wave;” and it closes its note by saying, “Tragedy ever fills the last float in a pageant.”