We feel our space too precious to drag our readers through the filth and details of the moral
upheaval of this and other nations of the so-called "free-world." We need not defile our readers
with stories of sin that others seem dedicated to publish. Yet, we are alarmed at the spread of these
things! Even the casual reader scanning the journals of Christendom cannot help but be appalled
at conditions today. College campuses, where the young from many homes are sent to acquire an
education to equip them better for the years ahead, are being converted into laboratories for
experiments in sin in this pseudo-scientific age. But, be not alarmed! At these same institutions
they are being soundly indoctrinated in the fatuous lie of evolution that out of all these deplorable
conditions man is evolving into something higher and better.

Men, wise in their own conceits, are becoming bolder by the day to throw off the "yoke of
religion" and discard and blaspheme the Scriptures of Truth. They are pulling up the anchor of
the ship of a "Bible-influenced" society and are going to be tossed about by the waves of the
unleashed human nature. We are careful to speak of this country, not as a Christian nation but
rather, as "Bible-influenced." Mild though that influence may seem, we lament to see it lessened
to the point of discard.

The Apostle Peter writes of those who "if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and
overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning" (II Peter 2:20). He is not
referring here to the disobedient Christian nor does this "knowledge" imply salvation. Rather, it
is as stated, that some have escaped the pollutions and degradations to which fallen man has
descended _ not through honest conversion, but simply through the knowledge of the "way of
righteousness" (n Peter 2:21). It is this knowledge of the way of righteousness that we see being
abandoned, as apostasy on a grand scale now pervades Christendom.

The "new morality" is but a cloak to call wickedness "morality" when the divine Standard for
marking out that "way of righteousness" is discredited and the depths of degradation are mistaken
for the higher planes to which mankind is supposedly evolving. Under the misguided influence
of this "new morality" people are in danger of falling not into love, but into sin. This confusion
between love and lust is perilous. God says that "when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin:
and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death" (James 1:15). "Woe unto them that call evil
good, and good evil" (Isa. 5:20).

The Word of God shows instances of moral wickedness assuming greater proportions as the truth
of God is given up. Eli’s sons were involved in horrible immoralities at the very door of the
tabernacle where God dwelt with His people. Is it any wonder that the glory departed? Israel’s
history of departures from the Lord to follow the idolatries of the heathen was almost always
accompanied by moral wickedness and atrocities. The whole course of the Gentile nations is
summed up in Romans 1:"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
. . . Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, . .
. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections. . . . And even as they did not like to retain

God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind" (Rom. 1:21-28). Thus we see
the downward plunge of man.

With the spread of Christian truth came the re-enlightenment of the reprobate mind of fallen man.
This "knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" and "the way of righteousness" as Peter
speaks, blessed though they be, do not necessarily involve salvation. However, the gospel believed
goes much further, imparting life and light as well as pardon, peace, and the crowning blessing
of the indwelling Spirit of God. But when even this is rejected, grace is despised or turned into
lasciviousness; and the heart becomes, as some have termed it, "gospel-hardened." What can there
be but a "certain fearful looking for of judgment"! This latter end is far worse!

In the New Testament we read of the true Church as a chaste virgin; espoused to Christ (II Cor.
11:2). Yet, when the professing church is viewed with its ranks swelled with unbelievers (the true
saints having been previously raptured to glory), God calls her "THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS"
(Rev. 17:5). Again, immorality is the consequence and type of spiritual evil. So, we are not to be
surprised at the present course of evil, the "mystery of iniquity" already at work _ "the spirit that
now worketh in the children of disobedience" (H Thess. 2:7; Eph. 2:2).

The gospel of God’s grace has delivered the believer from these things. "But we are bound to give
thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning
chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth" (II Thess. 2:13).
"And such were some of you:but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the
name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God" (I Cor. 6:11). "But, beloved, we are
persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak" (Heb.
6:9).

The believer in the Lord Jesus, who trembles at His Word and accepts no other standard as the
guide for faith and practice, is bound to reject this "new morality" and "with purpose of heart .
. . cleave unto the Lord." God commands us, "Flee fornication," and adds, "Every sin that a man
doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body" (I Cor.
6:18). Such is the double evil described by God. Since our bodies are the temples of the Holy
Ghost, and we are not even our own, we are further exhorted to glorify Him in our bodies, for
we are bought with the price of the precious blood of Christ.

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassion of God, to present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, (which is) your intelligent service. And be not conformed to
this world, but be transformed by the renewing of (your) mind, that ye may prove what (is) the
good and acceptable and perfect will of God" (Rom. 12:1,2,).

"What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and
hasting unto the coming of the day of God" (II Pet. 3:11,12)!