CENTERS OF CORRUPTION

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 26, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 38.

CENTERS OF CORRUPTION

THE cities, more than any other part of the world, are the great centers of vice and corruption; and because of their gross wickedness, the Lord has given His unfailing word that they shall all be “broken down.” This breaking down of the cities because of their wickedness will be done in part, no doubt, by the violent men who inhabit them; but what their violence fails to do, the overwhelming action of the elements of nature will complete. God tells us that Sodom and Gomorrah, those cities of ancient times whose wickedness became so gross as to be a proverb, “are set forth as an example.” Jude 7.

The destruction of those ancient cities is not any more complete than that which the prophets tell us will be visited upon the debauched and sinning cities of our days. And it should be kept in mind constantly that this is not a statement of some theological dogma. It is not the creed of some particular school. It is the presentation of literal facts that have for their foundation the authority of Him who alone knows the end from the beginning, but who is also the All-powerful One. Jer. 4: 23-28.