Iniquity Abounds by D. T. Bourdeau

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 10, 1874

Iniquity Abounds.

By D. T. Bourdeau

WHEN in a land of Bibles and of boasted liberty and freedom like ours, we see in a single county (that of La Salle, Ill.,) an organized gang of at least twenty robbers, plundering, and striking the inhabitants with fear and consternation; when preachers with a knowledge of our faith in the soon coming of Christ and the needed preparation to meet him, will one week acknowledge us as Christians, and in their very next sermon, call us devouring wolves while we are earnestly endeavoring to induce men to be converted to God, that they may flee from the wrath to come; and when under the same spirit men will say we ought to be killed, and will advise others to kill us; when we see so-called Christians acknowledge the truth, and then turn away from it through fear of reproach or of suffering temporal losses; when we see all this and much more, we are led to feel in our hearts that conscience is becoming a scarce article in the world, that truly iniquity abounds, and that it becomes us to prepare for worse scenes, and to be more in earnest in laboring to save those who can be saved. Only two days since, one of the most horrid and shocking murders was committed six miles from this place.

D. T. BOURDEAU.

Serena, La Salle Co., Ill., Feb. 13, 1874.