"There never was a time when there was
--so much boasting of progress and advancement on the part of the race,
--and never a time when they gave more palpable evidence of fast descending into every depth of iniquity and sin.
Q: And what does all this show?
A: It shows that the pretensions on which men build themselves up are a sham, and their professions, hypocrisy.
They are willing to deceive others, and to be deceived themselves. This is the time when the prophet tells us that evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
There is nothing to which men will not put their hand for gain.
With worthless nostrums, which the venders know will not accomplish what they claim, the confidence of the afflicted is secured, and their means filched.
Falsity and hollow-heartedness exist on every hand.
Truth is fallen in the streets, and equity cannot enter."
Uriah Smith
