Sodom will be better off. By John Macduff. Matthew chapter 11 verse 24 I assure you Sodom will be better off on the judgment day than you. Alas, it is to be feared that many mere professors are content with having a name to live, who are spiritually dead. There are thousands who come to our churches, who hear the preacher, who are sent to the message, but go back from listening to the tremendous themes of death, judgment, and eternity, only to plunge as deep as ever into engrossing worldliness and sin. The preacher may be heard. His words may fall like lulling music on the ear, but the gates of the soul are firmly locked and barred against admission. The preacher may thunder his rebukes, but some heart-sin and life-sin will, in spite of them, be retained and caressed. Are there none now reading these words, whom the Saviour would begin to upbraid, because they have not repented? When His scrutinizing eye looks down upon listening audiences throughout our land, all apparently solemn, sincere, outwardly devout, does He not discern, lurking underneath this fair, external guise, the signs and symptoms of loathsomeness and decay, like the pure virgin snow covering the charred and blackened ruin. Sermons will not save us. Churchgoing will not save us. Orthodoxy in creed and party will not save us. Repent. Repent is the sharp, shrill call of the gospel trumpet. There must be a change of heart. a change of life, a crucifixion of sin, and a cleaving unto the Lord who died for us with full purpose of heart.