M. L. ANDREASEN by M. L. Andreasen

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 7, 1906

M. L. ANDREASEN

By M. L. Andreasen

"Has every man his price?" is a theme that has been discussed by many New York pulpits. While this question has been answered in the negative, the very fact that it has been raised is indeed a sign of the times. It is true, far more now than in Lincoln’s time, that "the times are out of joint." Lawlessness seems to pervade society, from the mischievous boy on the street to the most honored and trusted of legislators and public servants. And there is a meaning to all this.

“Little Italy,” New York City. In these few tenement houses more than 4,000 people hive and swelter, exist and die.

Two thousand years ago the Bible foretold the condition as it is to-day. Instead of teaching that the world should be getting better, it distinctly stated that "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse." The careful Bible student and observer of the times sees in the situation of to-day the "perilous times" that should come "in the last days," when men should be "lovers of their own selves, covetous, . . . incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God." Instead of waiting for the kingdom of God to be set up on earth, he is waiting for the "blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;" he is "looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat."

And that, reader, is the meaning of these things. The end of all things is at hand. Soon the Master shall appear. Deceit, falsehood, crooked dealing, all sin, misery, and sickness shall then have an end. Blessed time! May it soon come!