Like Unto Sodom by C. E. H.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 23, 1910

Like Unto Sodom

By C. E. H.

In Colonel Roosevelt’s speech at Oxford, England (June 7), were some statements which should be of special interest to students of Bible prophecy. He said:—

Forces that we can see, and other forces that are hidden, or that can but dimly be apprehended, are at work all around us, both for good and for evil. The growth in luxury, in love of ease, in taste for vapid and frivolous excitement, is both evident and unhealthy.

These “evident and unhealthy” conditions are not confined to the United States, but are found all over the world. It was said of Sodom that her iniquity was “pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness;” and because of this she came to an untimely end. There is a striking similarity in these respects between Sodom and the world to-day. Mr. Roosevelt also stated that “no man is more apt to be mistaken than the prophet of evil.” He then gave several examples of men who have made pessimistic predictions, only to have them fail of coming true. But a greater than man has written the future of this world; and as surely as Babylon fell before the

Medo-Persian army, so surely will the wicked kingdoms of this world soon pass away, and Christ’s everlasting kingdom of righteousness be set up.

Men who view the world with an unprejudiced eye, acknowledge that conditions are far from satisfactory. In his warning concerning the last days, Paul says that “men shall be lovers of their own selves,” and “lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.” These predictions are shown to be correct by Mr. Roosevelt’s own admissions.

C. E. H.