Trailing in the Dust by L. E. F.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 6, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 23.

Trailing in the Dust

By L. E. F.

"IN the first place, the divorce evil is not the divorce. Neither is the divorce the remedy for the divorce evil. The divorce evil is the evil, whatever it may be, which leads to divorce. Consequently the divorce never removes the evil. The divorce only alleviates — or aggravates — the unfortunate situation arising in some particular case from a previously existing evil."

And this pertinent statement from the Independent of May 1, 1916, is true. Divorce is rather a symptom than a disease, due to the ruthless abandonment of the divine principles of the marriage institution. The former standards of morality are trailing in the dust. The pitch of the moral tone is being lowered year by year.

Will Christians be swept along by the popular current? — They will if they do not "watch and pray." Sin loses its repulsiveness to those who constantly behold it.

God has forewarned us of these distressing conditions that are to characterize the "last days." "As it was in the days of Lot, . . . even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed." Luke 17: 28-30.

The sins of Sodom will be, are being repeated. L. E. F.