Lessons from the San Francisco Disaster by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 20, 1908

Lessons from the San Francisco Disaster

By Editor

WE are often reminded that God employs agencies of his own to accomplish his will, and that his warnings are given by those who little think that they are being used for any such purpose. We are convinced that in the terrible visitation which overwhelmed San Francisco April 18, 1906, God was speaking in judgment not only to the people of that city, but to the world; but our interpretation of the event might have little weight with many persons. Nevertheless others have been moved upon to point out in a clear way the meaning of the disaster, and many have read their interpretation who could not be reached by our publications. We call special attention to these facts in this issue of the REVIEW. On page 10 appears an article which was printed in San Francisco about six months after the earthquake, and in the Editorial department we make quotations from a poem which has just recently appeared in a New York publication having a large circulation. Thus the attention of the people has twice been called to the real meaning of the terrible disaster which devastated the leading city of the Pacific Coast, and they and we and all others are left without excuse concerning it. Will the lesson be heeded, or will it be repeated in other places? Happy are those who listen to the monitory voice.