If Satan took control of a city

On Sunday night, the pastor at Red Mountain Church in Birmingham spoke on the seditious nature of the gospel. He read a quote from longtime pastor of 10th Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Donald Grey Barnhouse, that rocked me. Barnhouse was asked on radio in the 1950s what it would look like if Satan really took control of a city. Over a half-century ago, this was his reply:

All of the bars would be closed, pornography banished, and pristine streets would be filled with tidy pedestrians who smiled at each other. There would be no swearing. The children would say, "Yes, sir" and "No, ma'am," and churches would be full every Sunday...where Christ is not preached.