The World Getting Better
By Editor
IN the face of every kind of evidence to the contrary, men continue to insist that the world is constantly growing better and better. Of course it is encouraging to know that there are thousands upon thousands of men and women in the world, but not of it, who manifest the strongest characters, and are as stanch supporters of righteousness as have been seen in any age in the world's history. In fact, we may know that the conditions in this time will develop men and women who will be as strong morally as any generation in the past has ever produced. Men like Elijah and Moses will stand up for God and right; for the triumphant song that will be sung by the redeemed from the last generation is to be the song of Moses as well as the song of the Lamb, and the message of God to the world in the last days is to go with the spirit and power of Elijah. But while these forces are working mightily for God, we read definitely from the book of one of His prophets whose writing was to be sealed until "the time of the end," that while "many shall be purified, and made white, and tried," yet "the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand." There is not a single ray of hope held out to us, in the word of God anywhere, that the greedy, crime-laden, wicked world will ever become any better; but on the other hand, we are told that it will grow worse and worse. These facts need to be kept in mind constantly, that we may not be deceived by the popular clamor of this time, and hence be lost in the whirlpool of iniquities that will engulf those who the Master has told us will go in large numbers down the broad way to destruction.