Milford chronicle., 1905-05-05


e grass was rich and the pasture good
+ But reading between the lines / thinl
:. / can tell other reasons for the choice
S That night when the great shepherd en-
e campment is asleep 1 see the light
5 burning in Lots tent. / hear a woman
in earnest conversation with her hus
= band. She is talking about like this
Lot, what is the good of our living in
tent all our dives? We have lots OF
sheep and horses and cattle. We are
rich. We can do what we like. You
can bet the overseers look after the
herds. Take life easy and have some
fun. Why not 80 down to Sodom and
mlngle in the society of wealthy and
refined and aristOcratic people? Our
girls are growing up. They need a
coming OUT party. Oh, l know there
are bad people living down there, but
because they are bad we do not neces-
I sarily have to be very bad. Besides,
/ Lot don't you remember those big
merchants of SodOm who stopped with
us last year on their way to Damas-
Gus? Their wives were charming peO-
pie. They moved in the best society.
They asked me to come to Sodom to
live, and they would introduce me to
their friends. Come, let us 20 and live
in SOdOm! The grass is good in the
plains OF Jordan. There we can find
good pasture for the fiOcks and herds
and have lots Of pleasure besides"
And Lot and his wife went to live in
Sodom. Why?
Why They Went to sOdOm.
Can you find one circumstance, one
ground for hope of spiritual develop
ment, that could have induced Lot
and his wife to go to live in SOdOm |
or GomOrrah? What POmpeii and |
Herculaneum were to the ancient
Romans these vile cities We're to the |
of the east. Their, sins
were so vile and awful and debauch-
ing that no public teacher of this day
dare mention them or write them for
print. Today as you walk among the
ruins Of Pompeii you see the most re-
vOlting and disgusting pictures paint
ed upon the walls, which prove how
he inhabitants of the aristOcratic sub
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les. Such were the inhabitants of
Sodom. They made no pretense to de-
'ency. They not only sinned, but they
sloried in their sins. They published
hose sins everywhere. They practic- {
d them openly. Yet that was the
lace where Lot and his wife, with
heir two daughters, deliberately de-
ided to dwell after they had left the
weet, holy fellowship of Abraham's {
ONE. My brother my sister, are your /
today evil companions? I
re they men and women who sin and 1
in openly? Are they inhabitants of S
le evil cities of the plain? +
Man, how is it about that club?
D not say all mems clubs are bad. il
ut some certainly are bad. Is your d
ub made up Of Christian members? Y
hen you go there do you feel you h
'e honoring Christ? Do you ever hear c
e lewd joke, the vile story, the d
'unken hiccough, there? Do you as a
'ciate there with men who are neg G
citing their homes and who are ac- q
lstOmed to speak lightly Of wOman's b.
lrity and the sacred nobility of moth b
hood? Wife, how is it with your as e
ciates? For years you have been b.
to get into society" What n,
Ociety?" The society" of Sodom or ec
Nazareth? The society" of wives in
d daughters who are trying to make h;
e world better through Christ or the G.
Ociety" Of avOwed worldlings? Why sy
/ Lots wife long to associate with d,
e sinful inhabitants Of the cities Of br
2 plain? Why are you, 0 men and II
'men, struggling to associate with ba
ople who care no more for your nj
rist tEan for Buddha or Mohammed an
Confucius or Plato? Are your asso- ~
ties today made up Of a gambling, to
mixing, card playing, dancing, Sab N
tn breaking and God dishonOring m,
J? If you are deliberately compan- Cb
ing with such associates you are
e Lots wife, living with the wicked
the evil cities Of the plain.