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Chapter 17—Appeal and Warning
The World’s Need
[The Review and Herald, March 31, 1910.]
In this age of boasted enlightenment, the Christian church is
confronted with a world lying in midnight darkness, almost wholly
given over to idolatry. A well-nigh universal disregard of the law
of Jehovah is rapidly making the world like the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah. As in the days before the Flood, violence is filling
the land. Gambling and robbery are coming to be common evils.
The use of intoxicating liquors is on the increase. Many who have
followed their own unsanctified will seek to end their unprofitable
lives by suicide. Iniquity and crime of every order are found in
the high places of the earth, and those who assent to these wrongs
are seeking to shield the guilty ones from punishment. Not one
hundredth part of the corruptions that exist is being made plain to
the world. Little of the cruelty that is carried on is known. The
wickedness of men has almost reached its limit.
In many ways Satan is revealing that he rules the world. He is in-
fluencing the hearts of men and corrupting their minds. Men in high
places are giving evidence that their thoughts are evil continually.
Many are seeking after riches and scruple not to add to their wealth
through fraudulent transactions. The Lord is permitting these men
to expose one another in their evil deeds. Some of their iniquitous
practices are being laid open before the world, that thinking men
who still have a desire in their hearts to be honest and just with
their fellowmen may understand why God is beginning to send His
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judgments on the earth. The Lord will surely punish the world for its
iniquity; “the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more
cover her slain.” ...
The Lord in compassion is seeking to enlighten the understand-
ing of those who are now groping in the darkness of error. He is
delaying His judgments upon an impenitent world, in order that His
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