they knew existed in the parents’ lives and others of their social set. Of course, the parents had no one to blame but themselves for the condition of their children. The shame that they experi enced at being exposed in this manner was nothing but retribu tive justice being heaped upon their own heads. The freedom allowed in the making and showing of modem moving pictures is one of the most damaging influences in mod em-day life. No commercial moving picture company would think of making a picture without glorifying sex, unless it might be “ a once-in-a-great-while documentary” on some historic in cident of significance. Producers know full well that the Ameri can public would never pay to see a good, clean, wholesome pic ture, so sex or lust or murder or brutality of some sort must be glorified in order to make the picture a financial success. The actors and actresses and producers could not care less about the souls of individuals. Their only concern is filling their own pockets with as much money as they can possibly obtain. Do not any one come up with the plaintive appeal that there are certain individuals in the moving picture business who produce clean pictures and whose lives are exemplary. This is readily granted, but they are in such a minority that their voices are practically unheard and their lives are not given a second thought. It’s the glorification of sex that counts. The matter o f sex is seldom, if ever, depicted as a significant part of a total love relationship in which a man and his wife give themselves to each other with the sanction of God and society. Sex in marriage is almost com pletely disregarded : only sex o f an illicit nature that is attrac tive to the average mind. Sometime ago, a Harvard sociologist warned: “ Our trend toward sex anarchy has not yet produced catastrophic conse quences, nevertheless, the first syndromes o f the grave disease have already appeared.” Illegitimacy has increased 133% with in the past 10 years; venereal disease is on the increase again in spite of all that penicillin and other antibiotics can do. The U.S. Public Health Service reports “ Shocking increases” among youngsters 15 to 19 years of age caught with social disease. The American Social Hygiene Association warns us as a nation to expect at least two to three hundred thousand new cases o f V.D. among teen-agers alone in the coming year. Billy Graham has repeatedly stated, “America has a greater obsession for sex than Rome ever had.” Alas, truer words were never spoken! There recently appeared the account o f a conversation be tween a very wise father and his daughter. She told him that she thought the advances made by boys were “ compliments.” She felt flattered. After they had talked awhile, her father gave her a significant line to remember: “When a boy wants to spend the night with you, there is no greater insult; when he wants to spend his life with you, there is no greater compliment.” Alas, we hear only feeble voices raised concerning the moral and social standards of our society in general and of our churches in particular. One minister recently observed that if he preached too strongly on such-subjects, his congregation would demand his resignation. This is a deplorable condition. Certainly we are living again “ as it was before the flood,” the days of “ Sodom and Gomorrah,” the days of the lowest ebbs o f civilization in all o f our history, and our heart’s cry is, “Even so, come quick ly, Lord Jesus!” to save us from this wretched condition into which we have plunged, ere we perish utterly. We are heading straight into the certain judgment of a holy and righteous God.
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