NOT AMERICA ALONE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 12, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 48.

NOT AMERICA ALONE.

FROM reading the newspapers in the United States one might get the impression that moral degeneracy is more general in this country than in other parts of the world. But it is said, and perhaps truthfully, that this appearance comes from our having conditions here constantly portrayed before us. Even an English authority says that the difference between England and America is that America does her house-cleaning in public, while England does hers in private. But the publicity given to American defalcations in monetary affairs, fraud in manufactures and industries, and corruption in political circles causes the English authorities to do some home investigating; and it has been disclosed that revolting conditions exist in the manufacture of jams and other preserves.

One English journal well says: “The looseness in food preparation in various countries may be remedied, but there is another variety of looseness not so easily managed. This is moral laxity. Neither is it confined to one country; it is world-wide. Uncleanliness in food may be detrimental to a nation, but loose morals destroy it. Human power may clean up a factory, but it takes divine power to renovate a heart.”