A Thrilling Experience by Walter G. Bond

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 16, 1907

A Thrilling Experience

By Walter G. Bond

“THIS know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.”

Last evening about seven o’clock we were forcibly impressed that this scripture is being fulfilled. I was returning from a meeting held on the opposite side of the city from our home, and was accompanied by an interested man who had attended the meeting. As we reached the principal street of the city, we were shaking hands to separate, when within twenty yards of the place where we were standing, a bomb exploded. It was the sixth that has exploded in this city during the last twenty-four hours. The street was filled with people. The screams and moans of the wounded and frightened were heart-rending. Four persons were fatally wounded, and a score or more of others were badly injured, while perhaps as many others fainted. The scene was not one to be soon forgotten. It reminded us of the Saviour’s words in giving the signs of his coming: “Great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences: and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven, and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” As this morning’s newspaper expresses it, “Horror was pictured on every face.” When these things begin to take place about us, the Master commands us to look up and lift up our heads for our redemption draweth nigh. The next event to be seen is the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory. May that glad day be hastened.

It would be difficult to find a place where the spirit of anarchy is more prevalent than here, but we thank God for his protecting care. “Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men.”

WALTER G. BOND. Barcelona, Spain.