Theory and Fact by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Jul 16, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 27.

Theory and Fact.

By Editor

Dr. Edward Louis Bisch prophesies a roseate future for man. He declares that men and women of the future will not know disease. There will be no insanity, because “men will learn to control the factors which unbalance the nervous system.” The unfit will not be allowed to marry, and there will be an “all-round harmonious development.” “The future race will be beautiful physically, and giants intellectually.” Beautiful theory, but the facts are tremendously against it. The demonstrations that we have had politically the last few weeks are not such as to give us very much courage in believing that men will learn to balance themselves. Our big political conventions are mighty evidences to the contrary. Other noted physicians tell us that the race will in a short time become insane, that insanity is increasing; and where the question has been brought before legislators of endeavoring to control marriage, and prevent the unfit from marrying, there has been no indication that such a thing will ever be carried out.

The simple fact is, looked at from every standpoint, with few exceptions, that the race is degenerate, that intemperance and vice are sapping the virility of men and bringing untold diseases upon humanity. And yet there is one hope always held out before every man, and that hope centers in the Lord Jesus Christ. He is able to create, and He is able to re-create men, here and now, in character and physically, if—for there is an “if”—if men would but trust Him.