What Next? by L. E. F.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 26, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 38.

What Next?

By L. E. F.

JOY riding of mixed crowds, clad only in pajamas, and at 2:30 o'clock in the morning, is the latest society diversion for hot weather in one of the large cities of the Central States. In other communities, different fads — some better, some worse — are in vogue. The regularity with which such innovations appear before the public eye is a constant testimony to the undeniable passing of moral standards. A certain daring freedom from moral restraint seems to permeate every avenue of life. The mind appears to have lost the sense of surprise at fresh exhibitions of immodesty.

The wild orgies continuously exposed by the public press, and the bold encroachments upon the acknowledged standards of decency, seen on every hand, declare, in words too plain to be misapprehended, that we have reached the days preceding the return of Christ.

Of these, the record says that "iniquity shall abound" (Matt. 24: 12-14); moral conditions "shall wax worse and worse" (2 Tim. 3: 13); and the brazen night life of the antediluvians and the Sodomites will be repeated (Luke 17: 26-30). Though covered with garments of choicest ermine, and bedecked with gems of most brilliant hue, sin will some day, and that soon, be exposed in all its hideous loathomeness. The Judgment will reveal the leprous spots of iniquity.

Let Christians beware lest, in these careless days, sin lose to them its exceeding sinfulness. L. E. F.