point where these conditions are accepted in today’s society. And, alas, hardly anyone any more thinks o f indulgence or participation in any o f these activities as sinful. The idea o f the Christian’s keep ing his body clean and pure as the temple o f the H oly Spirit is hardly considered at all today. And why should it be, when in so many areas the very personality o f the H oly Spirit is denied by the church leaders themselves? In the early years o f this century, the wind was sown. Alas, today, we are beginning to reap the whirlwind. The visible church o f Jesus Christ has failed miserably in upholding the W ord o f God as the only infallible rule o f faith and practice and in demanding that Christians lives must con form to that Word. N ow we are beginning to hear more and more from secular sources about the harmful effects that the products o f these industries have had upon the bodies o f those who have indulged in them. More and more we are reading in newspapers and magazines about the harmful effects o f drinking and smoking upon the human body and the harmful influences o f modern moving-pictures and modern danc ing upon the morals o f their habitues. The church o f Jesus Christ has possessed from the beginning all knowledge in regard to morals from the time the canon o f Scripture was completed and passed down to us. We need only to read it and to pass its instructions on to our young people. Take for instance the passage in Titus 2 :11-14 as a blueprint for the Christian life: "For the grace o f God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men, "Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; “ Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing o f the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: "W h o gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous o f good works.” It would be a wonderful thing if we o f this generation would begin to recognize the fact that our parents and grandparents who held so rigidly to high moral standards in their day and upon whom we may have looked with a degree o f condescension, were right after all in their condemnation o f these evil practices. Many people thought that civilization was moving onward and upward by get ting away from the rigid mores o f former generations. But, alas, it is being recognized increasingly that we have been merely moving. We have been moving, not upward but downward, in our moral standards, and as a result in our over-all pattern o f civilization. Is it too much to hope for, to pray for and to work for to get our churches and our church people once again to the place where they recognize the indwelling personality o f the H oly Spirit? Is it un reasonable that those who have put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and own Him as their Saviour make an honest effort to keep their bodies clean and pure, fit for the habitation o f the H oly Guest?
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