This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ... near. He is glad if we are doing good, and "if not, I will know," He says. And though God longs to bless us all, yet men and women, and boys and girls, must always remember that God will know, and that sin cannot escape punishment. And cities and Churches must remember that God is always " going down to see" what they are doing to keep life pure and holy, to promote righteous commercial life, and to see whether the slums, and the paupers, and the outcasts, and the aged, and sick poor, and the neglected little children, are being thought about by His people. There is a beautiful poem of Lowell's beginning: --"Said Christ the Lord, I go down to see How the men, My brethren, believe in Me." It tells of the pomp with which He was received; of the worship and stately services, &c.; and how, in the midst of it all, He saw the poor people neglected, and the tempted people unhelped; and the groans of the sorrowful and oppressed rose up into His ears, and in scathing rebuke He turned on the people who were so pleased with themselves and their stately worship. God is always looking on the cities. God was visiting Sodom now in sternness and justice, for the cry of its awful vileness had risen into His ears. 4. Abraham's Intercession. Did Abraham care whether the people of Sodom were punished? Yes. His great, generous heart took an interest in the people whom he had helped before. When? He cares for Lot; but he never mentions him. He evidently had more than Lot in view. They were bad people, yet he pleads for them, just as he had fought for them, earnestly, boldly, generously, unselfishly. Think about this prayer. First see its fault; the bargaining and beating down of God's terms, as if God were less willing to be merciful than...