World Conditions Facing the Christian Worker
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The World a Pesthouse
Men in their blindness boast of wonderful progress and enlighten-
ment; but the heavenly watchers see the earth filled with corruption
and violence. Because of sin the atmosphere of our world has become
as the atmosphere of a pesthouse.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:10,
11
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An Epidemic of Crime
We are living in the midst of an “epidemic of crime,” at which
thoughtful, God-fearing men everywhere stand aghast. The corruption
that prevails, it is beyond the power of the human pen to describe.
Every day brings fresh revelations of political strife, bribery, and
fraud. Every day brings its heart-sickening record of violence and
lawlessness, of indifference to human suffering, of brutal, fiendish
destruction of human life. Every day testifies to the increase of insanity,
murder, and suicide. Who can doubt that satanic agencies are at work
among men with increasing activity to distract and corrupt the mind,
and defile and destroy the body?—
The Ministry of Healing, 142, 143
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The spirit of anarchy is permeating all nations, and the outbreaks
that from time to time excite the horror of the world are but indications
of the pent-up fires of passion and lawlessness that, having once es-
caped control, will fill the earth with woe and desolation. The picture
which Inspiration has given of the antediluvian world, represents too
truly the condition to which modern society is fast hastening. Even
now, in the present century, and in professedly Christian lands, there
are crimes daily perpetrated, as black and terrible as those for which
the old-world sinners were destroyed. Before the flood, God sent Noah
to warn the world, that the people might be led to repentance, and
thus escape the threatened destruction. As the time of Christ’s second
appearing draws near, the Lord sends His servants with a warning to
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the world to prepare for that great event. Multitudes have been living
in transgression of God’s law, and now He in mercy calls them to obey
its sacred precepts. All who will put away their sins by repentance
toward God and faith in Christ, are offered pardon.—
Patriarchs and
Prophets, 102
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