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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 24, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 31.

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A Hailstorm in Assam

A MISSIONARY reporting from Assam, northeast India, tells of a fearful hailstorm which devastated a considerable portion of the country, killing people and animals, and beating down all but the most substantial buildings. Not less than a thousand houses were in ruins in one small city. Some of the hailstones weighed nearly two pounds. Majestic trees that had withstood the storms of centuries were torn to pieces and overturned in a moment. The fury of the storm was declared to be indescribable, and the missionary’s attempt to describe it turns our mind to the view given by the revelator of the mighty storm of the last day: “And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.” Rev. 16:21. Developments in the social world and among the forces of nature compel us to believe that the time draws near for the fulfillment of that scripture and others that pertain to the same time.
A REPORT from Elder J. B. Locken, of Bristol, Tenn., reveals something of the intensity of feeling that is being manifested among Sunday law advocates in different parts of the country. The condition therein described is becoming quite largely characteristic of the clerical organizations throughout the country. He says: “I am sending a report of the Sunday crusade here, and trust it will be of interest to the readers of the REVIEW. While the law has been defeated, the intensity of feeling on the part of the ministers has been increased against us, and they are blaming us for the results. We are laboring on in faith, trusting the Lord to give us many more souls as the result of our seed sowing here. Personally I have sold six hundred of ‘The World’s Crisis’ and nearly two thousand magazines, besides a good many books. There is a great demand for our literature, and we thank God for this wonderful agency in helping to spread the truth.” Our successful workers everywhere are certain to find opposition. The lack of opposition may be quite safely regarded as an indication that nothing is being accomplished.