Obliged to Confess It True
By Editor
Obliged to Confess It True.—God's Word declares that violence and crime and wickedness will increase in the world till Christ comes. The tares will grow till uprooted by the great judgment-harvest. This is often unwittingly admitted even by those who picture a roseate future for this poor world in its present condition. An evidently clerical editorial writer in the Los Angeles Sunday Times of January 15, writing on "How to Accomplish Our Mission," that is, Americans, says:— "Politically we are not wholly pure, nor honest, nor upright. While the higher places of power and political trust may be bought or bartered for gold, or for influence, and the sacredness of the ballot is not duly regarded, we are not safe. While men with no moral principle, no respect for law, no desire for anything higher than the gratification of their own ambitions, dare aspire to the highest places within the gift of the people, fearless of rebuke, there is something that is rotten in our political system that threatens danger to the very life and spirit of our political freedom. It can not be denied that while we as a people have made noble advancement along certain lines, we are along other lines degenerating, and are proving ourselves to be, in some respects, unworthy of the grandeur of our past. The struggle for office was never more unscrupulous or more determined than it is to-day, and in many cases the fitness for the same is in nowise as seriously considered as it should be. Where this is the case, and unfit men are elected, the machinery of the government must suffer and its integrity and strength be greatly impaired. We can not hope that good will come out of evil, or that men who are totally unfitted for legislative trusts will legislate wisely upon the most important questions that concern our life as a nation." And this is true; and the people were never so indifferent to this fearful condition. "Cease ye from man." All hope of true reformation must come through faith in Jesus Christ to the individual. Moral reforms have more than a political basis.