p. 45 | Omens by D. T. T.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 1, 1867

Omens.

By D. T. T.

A MARKED and wonderful year is this 1866. The hundredth birth year of the most numerous Protestant church in America; the advent of the cholera and its fearful ravages in Europe and on this continent; the terrible cattle plagues in England; the laying of the Atlantic cable; the frightful and sweeping cyclones or revolving hurricanes on the sea and land; the disasters by flood in France and our own country; the prostration of over twelve hundred vessels in the same storm; the foundering of the Evening Star at sea, with three hundred souls on board; the drowning of ninety-five abandoned females by this catastrophe; the shaking of the whole north-west coast of North America by an unprecedentedly severe earthquake: the rapid and fierce war of the great nations on the continent of Europe; the liberation of Italy; the singular and sudden abasement of Austria, the right arm of Popery; the dreadful famine in India, which has destroyed two-thirds of the lower and laboring class of the population; the subversion of an empire in Mexico; the consumption by fire of two very large and crowded cities on this continent, causing the burning of over four thousand dwellings and a loss of over six millions of property; storms at sea destroying over two hundred vessels in one gale; the burning up and utter disappearance of a star in the heavens, supposed to be a central sun with all its satellites; the wane of Mohammedanism in Turkey; the visible decline of Popery, and the expected downfall of the Papal temporal and civil power at Rome; the menacing attitude of Fenianism; the increasing infidelity and anti-christianism of Spiritualism; the general lack of revival everywhere; the potato rot again wide spread and ruinous; the perpetual wars and rumors of war rife in all the world; the universal foreboding of coming evil among the nations; the increasing expectation among prophetic students and pious Christians generally of the nearness of the consummation; all, all go to render this year one of the most remarkable years of our time, a year of wonders, a prophetic year, a year worth living to witness. The safe position for every soul is to be ever ready for a change of worlds. Some great event is evidently at the door.—D. T. T.—in World's Crisis.