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SODOM REVIVED

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 10, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 30, No. 13.

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SODOM REVIVED.

“As it was in the days of Lot,” says Christ, so “shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.”
That the world is fast relapsing into that state of unbridled licentiousness which called down the fiery thunderbolts of God’s wrath upon the inhabitants of Sodom, is attested by the following statements which we clip from a New York paper. Why will not men awake to the fact that the “days in which the Son of man is to be revealed, according to every predicted sign, are indeed upon us?
STARTLING CRIME.—It is absolutely staggering to note the bold, repeated violations perpetrated upon females throughout the country. It seems, from the accounts of this character that continually come to us, that all the rough, coarse passions of the nethermost pit, have started out on a general carnival. It seems as if an order for universal, riotous license, had suddenly come from his Satanic majesty, and the whole rabble rout of his imps, pimps and panders had a ticket for a general saturnalia. It may be sadly discouraging to be forced into such an admission, but it is no less sadly true.
What can all this mean? Has an indiscriminate license been issued for indiscriminate violence and lust, by the fallen Son of the Morning? Is the Evil One literally on his travels, “going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour?”