Christian Carnivals

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 27, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 21.

Christian Carnivals

Christian Carnivals.—The city of Los Angeles, called so many times the City of the Angels, and "Christian city," because she has a municipal Sunday law, recently held a "fiesta," described by many as an olden-time Saturnalia. One of the papers of that city has the following note of the results of the orgies of the last night:—

"Stories continue to circulate of the scandalous occurrences of All Fools' Night. Dissipation on the part of men and women of good social standing was carried to a wretched excess. In the entrance of stores, in hallways, and on upper floors of restaurants, drunken men and women, young and old, masked and unmasked, lay sprawled out in a shocking manner, unconscious through the drink which they had acquired through their 'smartness' in visiting saloons."

Of course all this is of the earth, earthly, and it shows what is simply true, that the world is not Christian, nor is any State or city of it, except in name.