ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY by M. W. HOWARD.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 24, 1868

ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY.

By M. W. HOWARD.

In reading a child's book, written by a minister, I found the following. I was glad to find the fact handed down by his authority, yet sorry that he could not see that it was a fulfillment of prophecy, and set it forth as such:

“Many years ago, when I was a small boy, a most wonderful event was seen, which no one could explain. On the morning of the 13th of November, 1833, it seemed as if the stars of heaven were shooting from their places, and many of them falling upon the earth.

“Looking up at a place in the south, and nearly overhead, it seemed that the stars in that part of the heavens were suddenly shooting away from each other, so that the clear sky seemed marked with many lines of light. They moved so rapidly that they seemed to leave a line of light behind them, just as is often seen when what we call a shooting star is seen. But they were in great numbers then. One person said that for two hours—from four to six in the morning—more than a thousand a minute might have been counted. They seemed as thick as snow-flakes in a snow-storm. It was a most sublime, brilliant spectacle.

“Many persons were greatly alarmed, thinking the day of Judgment had come; and that it was the time foretold in the Bible, when the stars should fall to the earth. I remember my father tried to quiet our fears, by pointing to the larger stars, and the planets, showing us that they still kept their places, and so long as this was the case we need not fear. I remember, too, that in my boyish fancy I thought I saw one fall in the yard near our house, and that I spent a long time in trying to find it.”

I said I was glad of this added testimony, even though he attempted to explain it by saying that it is supposed by many that a vast, dark substance is floating in the region above our atmosphere; and in some way this substance became disturbed, and so came rushing through our atmosphere, reflecting the light of our sun, as does the moon.

But in that case is it less the fulfillment of prophecy? And on the same principle, the “Bolide at Warsaw” is not less one of the signs in the heavens, of which our Saviour speaks.

M. W. HOWARD.