Discontent by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 7, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 23.

Discontent

By Editor

Discontent.—While some are contending for the "simple life," others feel that there is ground for discontent; and among the reasons for such a condition, the Denver News names the following:

The "frenzied finance" revelations, the increase of crime by immigrants, and other problems connected with the influx of inferior peoples, the evils of graft and adulteration, the indifference of the people to injustice from common carrier companies and other public services, and the overriding of law by city officials.

Surely these things ought to make patriots discontented till they are settled right. The same thing is true in the religious world. There is surely ground for discontent in the divisions in the Christian church, in the manifestation of greed, in unbelief in the Bible, in the rejection of the incarnation of Christ, and other things of equally fatal import. Truly, God's children should be so discontented that they would with all their heart come back to the old way, the good way, the way of the Book and the Master—"the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." And even here there should be no spirit of contentment apart from living connection with God and faithful work in His vineyard.