Article May 19, 1934 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Henry J. Simpson, Joy Elmer Morgan, John B. Szeghy, J. K. Leitch, A Correspondent

[Henry J. Simpson, in the News-Advertiser, Flint, Michigan]

The worst punishment which comes from the violation of God's laws is that which creeps up on us without our knowledge. Our friends may see it in us while we are unconscious of it. The deterioration of character which comes of the violation of God's laws is the most subtle and dangerous penalty of all. There is the power of habit which holds us and makes it dangerously easy to repeat wrong thinking or wrong doing.

With the formation of bad habits comes the breaking down of ideals, the disappearance of all the high dreams of our earlier years and the adaptation of our lives to the cheap and tawdry, the false and the untrue. When you analyze them, where do they come from, the selfishness and cruelties between man and man, the indifference to others' misfortunes, the unusualness of real self-sacrifice, the unusualness of real self-sacrifice for others? They are the results of disobeying God.

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