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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 20, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 25.

Is the World Crazy?

By Editor

AN editorial paragraph in a recent issue of the Los Angeles Daily Times reads: "Is this old world crazy? With war covering the face of the earth, it is easy to believe that the end of all things is almost at hand. When in the history of this terrestrial sphere have things been so at sixes and sevens?"

Men are stupefied by the problems of this time. Many heroic individuals are grappling with them, and seeking to make conditions better. They doubtless will succeed in bringing this great world war temporarily to a close. But society as a whole will be filled with the violence and rioting of discontent and revolution.

God is not the author of all this turmoil, rioting, and confusion; but the wickedness of humanity has brought about the conditions that have made it necessary for God to permit things to come as they are at the present time; and while wickedness and sin continue to increase, we may know that these conditions will grow worse and worse. We need to be studying, as never before, the great light of truth that God's word sheds upon these turbulent times.

The Greed for Gain

MEN are becoming more and more unscrupulous in regard to what they sell to other people to eat, and we may be thankful for the good work of some of the public food inspectors. Nearly a million pounds of foodstuffs were recently condemned as unfit for use and destroyed by the California State Board of Health. Among the articles were something like seven tons of decomposed eggs, five tons of poultry, and over four hundred tons of condiments, chiefly catsup made from decayed tomatoes.

This is an age of the greatest enlightenment. Men know better than to do many of the things they are doing. But the greed for gain is leading thousands of them to commit deeds every day which are jeopardizing the life and health of their fellow men. The money lover would seem to say, "What do I care for the life or the prosperity of my fellow men, if I can only make money?"

THE subject of a meeting in Union Square, New York, on a recent day, was "birth control." Some two or three women addressed those who were assembled. Following the meeting, pamphlets on the subject of "birth control" were distributed from an automobile. The papers state that "many young girls came forward with outstretched hands for these pamphlets." Upon incidents of that character, thoughtful people will have some reflections which will be along a very different line from the sentiments of those who are promoting the meetings. The record of the conditions in Sodom and Gomorrah should be carefully studied; and in connection with them, there should be studied the predictions of the Christ in regard to the repetition, in these last days, of the scenes in those wicked cities of old.