"The End is coming! Society cannot be improved! It's evils cannot be done away with!"

I reply, "this croaking has little significance to one who believes in Christ, the divinely ordained Regenerator of the world!

God permits evils for this very end, that they should be resisted and subdued. He intends that this world shall grow better and happier, not through His own direct hand, but through the labors and sufferings of our kindness, compassion, generosity and love. The greatness of its crimes and woes is not a ground for despair, but a call to greater effort. On our earth Christ has begun a war with evil. His cross is erected to gather together soldiers for the conflict, and victory is written in blood. The spirit which Jesus Christ breathes has already proved itself equal to this warfare." William Ellery Channing.