Mixture in This World

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 21, 1903

Mixture in This World.

Max O'Rell in writing from London on the extremes of poverty and wealth, thus sums up: “Hell is a city much like London,” once exclaimed Shelley. London is, indeed, an ignoble mixture of beer and Bible, of gin and Gospel, of drunkenness and hypocrisy, of unheard-of squalor and unbridled luxury, of misery and prosperity, of poor, abject, shivering, starving creatures and people insolent with happiness and untold wealth.” And he tells us that he wrote this twenty years ago, and it is the same to-day. He then refers to the death of a once-noted violinist who had squandered several fortunes, and at last died penniless. And he closes, “Sic transit gloria mundi.” So passes the glory of this world. And this world holds out no hope for aught more permanent or satisfactory. There is happiness in it in Christ Jesus, in doing good. It is the training ground for the better world, where we shall meet no extremes of luxury. All in that world will be without want forevermore.