Out of the Cities

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 30, 1906

Out of the Cities

By turning them into ashes God made the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah “an example unto those that should live ungodly.” In these last days the wickedness of the great cities is becoming like that of the ancient “cities of the plain,” and like them they are preparing for utter overthrow. This is emphasized in the following paragraph from a religious paper:—

The recent White murder in New York, and the talk and investigation that have followed it, have revealed a condition of moral perversity and vileness in so-called high life, the sight of which has made the world stand aghast. But evidently the state of affairs made bare by this incident is not peculiar to New York City, or even to the New World. A Jesuit preacher of London, England, has been preaching a series of sermons on the sins of the smart set, and one of the leading papers of the great metropolis has been compelled to admit that the terrible indictment of the vices of high society is based on well-known facts.

There is abundant reason for the message, “Out of the cities.”