The Plain Truth by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 5, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 48.

The Plain Truth

By Editor

SUCH the Word and Way, a Baptist paper, calls the answer of a Baptist pastor to a question asked by the editor. The editor, referring to moral religious conditions, asked, "What is the matter?" This the pastor calls "man's question," and then printed below it the following passage from Paul, which he called "God's answer:"

In the last days grievous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. 2 Tim. 3:1-4.

The editor adds: "We thank the pastor of the First Baptist Church for calling attention to these verses from one of Paul's epistles. Some have thought the editorial in question too pessimistic and its language too strong, but, compared with the apostle's words, it is optimistic and moderate."