Is It Spreading? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 3, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 22.

Is It Spreading?

By Editor

Is It Spreading?—We have before noticed as a deplorable sign of the times the auctioning of exposed feet of young women to help along some religious or charitable enterprise; the Christian Advocate notes that "two ladies, of different denominations, both teachers of Bible classes of young women, a short time since in conversation stated that the members of their classes proposed that there be a party in which the feet of the young women should be auctioned off for the benefit of the church, the scheme being to expose the feet and sell the owner to the highest bidder as a companion at the supper table. The low social and moral grade of the people where such proposals can be made is a sad commentary on the state of the churches to which they belong and the sphere in which they move." Further comment is needless.