SIN:
PREVALENCE OF; AMERICA: SINFULNESS

I have only the voice and opinion of one man—but I do fear for the future of our great nations on this continent where our laws are taking little account of sin and authorities are letting crime on crime pile up with soft sentiment taking over in so many areas.

There are members of organized crime and killers who boast about their many crimes, and authorities arrest one of the offenders and tell him: “You are a bad boy—you did not pay your income tax!” Meanwhile, the eloquent voice of shed blood cries out to God Almighty!…

I have little fear that any nation or combination of nations could bring down the United States and Canada by military action from without. But this I do fear—we sin and sin and do nothing about it. There is so little sense of the need of repentance—so little burden for the will of God to be wrought in our national life. I fear that the voice of blood will become so eloquent that God Almighty will have no choice but to speak the word that will bring us down.

Genesis 4:10; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Isaiah 5:20–23

Echoes from Eden, 43, 44.