p. 14 | American Influence

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 9, 1910

American Influence

THE influence of the United States outside of its own territory was powerfully illustrated recently in a Slovak village in Hungary. Baron Levay, giving an address at a political meeting, began to speak in Magyar. He was interrupted by the audience, who told him that the majority did not understand that language, although their native tongue, and asked him to address them in English. Four fifths of the three thousand persons composing the village were those who had returned from America. The vote of thanks at the close of the meeting was in English. Would that this growing, world-wide influence might ever be exerted in leading the nations upward toward higher ideals of government. But the prophetic Word predicts the very reverse: He “causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast.” Already do we see abundant indications of the working of this retrograde movement. While we may not save the nation from taking finally this fatal step, let us labor to save the individual units composing the nation from committing themselves to the evil principles which seek to lead the nations of men on to the overwhelming flood.