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"Perilous Times," The Primitive Monitor vol. 15 no. 10 (Oct. 1900)
AUTHOR: | Bazemore, Thomas J. |
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“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” II Tim., iii, 1-7...
[S]ee how disobedient children are these days, especially those who profess religion, the false religion that is so plentiful now. Children seem to act as though they knew more than their parents. There are so many parents who have turned their children over to others to be taught, and have failed to give them that good, old-fashioned, moral training at home, that a large per cent of the rising generation have their heads full of false religion and exalted ideas of themselves. This being the case, the surroundings are such that it is now a very difficult task for any to raise their children properly.
These disobedient children are unthankful, unholy, and without natural affection. They speak and act as though they owed nothing to their parents, not even respect. And they are truce-breakers, destroying or breaking the little seasons of peace and quietness that their parents may have in this world of sin and sorrow and care. They are false accusers, alleging things against the people of the Lord that are false, such as claiming that the Lord’s ministers preach that infants go to hell, which they never did and never will preach. They also claim that the Lord’s people favor drunkenness, and excuse drunkards, which is a false accusation. These characters, though so full of their religion, are said to be incontinent; that is, loose in morals. So far from being righteous and holy, as they profess to be, they are not even moral. They are fierce; that is, violent. They are fierce towards those that oppose them and their false notions. And they despise those that are good; consider them beneath their notice.
They are traitors; will not do to rely on as friends, they are so treacherous and deceitful. And they are heady; are self-willed; will not listen to the counsel of those that are older, wiser, and better than they. They are high-minded; are haughty; have an exalted opinion of themselves and their supposed attainments. They are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. Indeed, they do not love God, but have a form of godliness, in order to be popular, and to be in the style. They love to go to meeting with fine clothes on, and be much noticed. While they have a form of godliness, and appear to be very religious and sanctimonious, they deny the spiritual power that comforts the heart of the Christian and incites to righteous living. The apostle goes on further and says, “From such turn away.”
...Jesus says, “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me, and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it;” Matt., 10:34-39. So we see that families are divided. Some are the children of God, and some are not. Some know and love and obey the truth; while others do not know it, only to persecute it. This is the case with some fami
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