Terrible Disasters

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 6, 1866

Terrible Disasters.

God's judgments are abroad in the earth. Every day some new calamity is reported of a most heart-rending character. We have had of late, the great fire at Wiscasset, Me., the destruction of 2,500 dwellings beside many public buildings in Quebec, leaving 18,000 persons houseless; the loss of the Evening Star on its way from New York to New Orleans, in which nearly 300 perished; terrible hurricane at the Bahamas; loss of a vast number of vessels at sea by the late gales, with hundreds of lives lost; the great floods at the West and South, causing the loss of millions of dollars in property; the devastations of the cholera in nearly all our cities; the great famine in India, with wars and rumors of wars all over the world. Revolution follows on the heel of revolution. The great points of interest to which the eyes of the students of prophecy are now directed, as well as the world at large, are Rome and Turkey. Less than two months remain, before, according to treaty stipulation, all French troops are to be withdrawn from Rome, and the Pope to be left to his own resources. Turkey is assailed on all sides, and none of the powers at present seem disposed to stay the blow that ends her power. Surely we are close on the ending of Gentile times, and the approach of the kingdom of God.—Advent Herald.