Bathing Suit Parades

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 19, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 37.

Bathing Suit Parades

ONE of the advertised attractions in a certain city for Labor Day was, "Fifty Beauties Parade in Bathing Suits." The report says that the leader of the "bathing girls" "was followed by a procession of three-score bathing girls, in suits of all descriptions, from the long-neck cape suits to the nifty one-piece affairs called 'racing suits.'"

In other cities of this nation, one of the questions that is perplexing the authorities is as to what they shall do with the "bathing girls and women" who insist on parading the streets of these fashionable summer resorts in their bathing costumes.

Such things as are in evidence on every hand and in every part of the world show the increasing sensuality and the lowering morals of the age. Libertines who, to use the Bible expression, are "laden with divers lusts," will pooh-pooh the idea that these vaunted displays of sensuality are anything other than "fine art."

Without question, such manifestations are the highest expressions of a certain kind of fine art, but they are the art of him who invented the wickedness and sensuality of Sodom, which Christ so graphically foretold would characterize the last days, and would be one of the forerunners of the great judgments of God that would be visited upon wickedness.

Sensible men and women will not close their eyes to the meaning of such things. The striking utterances of the old prophets, upon almost every page of their vivid narratives, contain warnings against the vaunted wickedness that plunges men through sensual lusts into the pit of sure destruction. Be not deceived by the insane talk of men who would try to hide the worst and most debasing corruptions under the cloak of "civilization," "art," and the "refinements of modern society."

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." This world, with a mad intensity, is sowing the winds of wickedness. It is preparing itself soon to reap the whirlwinds of destruction.