p. 7 | Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1909

Note and Comment

The Modern Sodoms

THE appalling conditions which prevail in some of the great cities of America is beginning to compel attention from those who are called to deal with great moral questions. One intelligent observer, Rev. William J. Dawson, an English evangelist, recently made this statement in a public address in New York City:—

You can not imagine what an awful condition your city is in. The churches are losing their grip, and the ministers are allowing opportunities to slip through their fingers. In twenty years, unless there is a change for the better, the pride of America will be a pagan city; the church will be extinct, and vice will reign uncurbed.

If a dweller in ancient Sodom or Gomorrah should investigate one of our modern centers of population, he could easily be persuaded that the cities of the plain had been restored. Such moral depravity invites the judgments of heaven.