Do Not Wait till You Are Better
By Editor
Do Not Wait till You Are Better.—Many a sinner says that he intends to serve God, but he wants to overcome this habit or put away that sin before he comes to Christ. Such a purpose will keep one from Christ forever. What would you think of a man with several serious or fatal maladies upon him, saying, “When I am well of this, I will see the doctor; when the broken bone is mended, I will go to a surgeon”? We would rightly call him foolish. Jesus Christ came to “save His people from their sins.” He “was manifested to take away our sins.” Every sin upon us, every sinful habit that enthralls us, only increases our need of Him, and the necessity of seeking Him. Do not wait; come to Him now. “Thoughtful men in France are being led to see the danger to public morals that may lie in the newspapers,” says The Literary Digest, and quotes from a Paris newspaper the following: “Criminal reports of the press act as ‘spreading contagion, suggesting new crimes, or picturing vile examples.’ ‘Those who take the contagion are persons of morality already weak.’ ‘When circumstances are favorable their memory furnishes an ample crop of crimes in which they find the one fitting for the occasion.’ A censorship of the press in France would cause a revolution, but perhaps the journalists themselves will make a change for the better.” A writer in the same French journal condemns the present practise of permitting reporters to “mingle with the police in investigating crime only to advertise, exaggerate, and distort the facts.”