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Conditions in the Cities
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find words to describe. It seemed that the forbearance of God was
exhausted and that the Judgment day had come.
The angel that stood at my side then instructed me that but few
have any conception of the wickedness existing in our world today,
and especially the wickedness in the large cities. He declared that
the Lord has appointed a time when He will visit transgressors in
wrath for persistent disregard of His law.
Terrible as was the representation that passed before me, that
which impressed itself most vividly upon my mind was the instruc-
tion given in connection with it. The angel that stood by my side
declared that God’s supreme rulership and the sacredness of His law
must be revealed to those who persistently refused to render obe-
dience to the King of kings. Those who choose to remain disloyal
must be visited in mercy with judgments, in order that, if possible,
they may be aroused to a realization of the sinfulness of their course.
Throughout the following day I pondered the scenes that had
passed before me and the instruction that had been given. During
the afternoon we journeyed to Glendale, near Los Angeles; and the
following night I was again instructed regarding the holiness and
binding claims of the Ten Commandments and the supremacy of
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God above all earthly rulers.
I seemed to be in an assembly, setting before the people the
requirements of God’s law. I read the scriptures regarding the in-
stitution of the Sabbath in Eden at the close of the creation week,
and regarding the giving of the law at Sinai; and then declared that
the Sabbath is to be observed “for a perpetual covenant” as a sign
between God and His people forever, that they may know that they
are sanctified by the Lord, their Creator.
Then I further dwelt upon the supreme rulership of God above
all earthly rulers. His law is to be the standard of action. Men are
forbidden to pervert their senses by intemperance or by yielding their
minds to satanic influences, for this makes impossible the keeping
of God’s law. While the divine Ruler bears long with perversity, He
is not deceived and will not always keep silence. His supremacy,
His authority as Ruler of the universe, must finally be acknowledged
and the just claims of His law vindicated.
Much more instruction regarding the long-sufferance of God
and the necessity of arousing transgressors to a realization of their