History Repeating by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jun 7, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 23.

History Repeating.

By Editor

A century ago and fickle France had rejected God and was worshiping "reason" in the person of a dissolute woman. Worship of humanity is one of the marked signs of to-day. A noted fancy dancer has recently set the French capital, especially the higher classes of that city, wild, and they are bowing at her feet. A recent entertainment took place in that city. "The guests represented science, art, literature, and the drama. Toward midnight they were invited to the garden, where presently a cherubic-looking figure, dressed in vaporous, trailing garments, descended, or rather seemed to float, down-stairs. The figure passed into the garden, selecting a smooth patch of lawn lighted by a pale moon and by yellow Chinese lanterns, and began a mixture of skirt, serpentine, and Turkish dances. It was a wild success. Even the great Chinese representative in his yellow riding habit was carried off his feet. Benjamin Constant, the famous painter, in his excess of enthusiasm, pressed a couple of sounding kisses on the cheeks of the fair ——,

Editorial Notes.

The above is only one instance of many. God's message, His present message, to the people of earth is, "Fear God, and give glory to Him; . . . and worship Him."