Other statistics have revealed the fact that, according to best authenticated reports, between 65 and 75 percent o f the nation’s coeds engage in "pre-marital sex relations.” But the young people alone can hardly be blamed if they act in such a manner. Actually, they have a most reprehensible example to follow in the lives o f the adults o f this generation. (Climbing divorce rates, obscene and pornographic literature which is allowed by adults to flood the news stands, the idolization o f individuals such as the leading characters in the moving-picture "Cleopatra,” in spite o f their multiple di vorces and the wrecking o f homes and the completely damaging in fluence which their conduct has upon their children and other people’s children, immorality, scandal and crookedness which is to be found in high governmental circles, and a tragic deterioration in almost every facet o f American life.) All o f these, along with a mul titude o f other demoralizing influences on the part o f adults o f this generation, are readily observed by the oncoming generation. Is it any wonder, then, that they simply imitate that which they see their elders doing? And the tragic fact is that there is no ringing declaration from the great denominational churches, rebuking this "froward and untoward generation.” The visible church is not even warning against this sort o f conduct, let alone endeavor ing to provide any kind o f a remedy. On the contrary, many min isters in prominent positions continue to prate o f the fantasy that the world is getting "better and better,” that Christianity is gradu ally evangelizing the world and that sooner or later all will be well. O f course, it is quite easy to assume that the world is getting better and better if the church continues to accommodate itself to the wickedness o f society all around it, and is itself no better than the godless world! But this is not what the Word o f God teaches. The true servant o f the Lord Jesus Christ who stands behind the sacred desk must continue to proclaim the message that is ex tremely unpopular arid distasteful to a pleasure-mad generation, namely that the wages o f sin is death. He will call upon his con gregation and those wherever his voice can be heard to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Saviour, to turn from their wicked ways and to allow the Holy Spirit to have control o f their hearts and lives and not to be conformed to this world but to be trans formed by the renewing o f their minds, that they might work out what is that good and acceptable and perfect will o f God. God grant that in increasing numbers ministers o f the Gospel will proclaim once again these great truths and let the people know that “ thus saith the Lord.” It is the one and only hope o f our generation.
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