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Humanity’s Downward Tendency

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 3, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 5.

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Humanity’s Downward Tendency

The Bible story does not show mankind as rising steadily from a lower plane to a higher, developing by sure progress out of barbarism into an enlightened civilization. On the contrary, it represents the race as tending downward while left to its own devices, even while it had knowledge of a better way. This exhibit is more in accordance with the facts of observed history than with the theories of some modern philosophers. The Bible tells us of man's proneness to evil by his very nature, and of the certainty of his deterioration unless infused with the divine life. All history corresponds with, and confirms, this exhibit of man's tendency.—S. S. Times.