Storms and Sorrows

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 12, 1914

Storms and Sorrows

THE entire Atlantic coast region has just passed through one of the worst storms in its experience. Starting from the Gulf coast on February 28, the storm moved northward with increasing intensity, finding its greatest center of activity in the North Atlantic States. The wind reached a velocity of from sixty to one hundred miles an hour. Great destruction in the aggregate has been wrought. Telegraph lines have been blown down, houses unroofed, railway traffic completely tied up, etc. It is estimated that fully one million dollars will be required to remove the snowfall of fifteen inches from New York City alone. In New York and some of the other great centers of population in the East untold suffering was experienced. Many deaths occurred from exposure, and intense suffering was widespread. The display of storm signals on the Atlantic seaboard previous to the storm saved much shipping which otherwise would have been wrecked. The loss of life in recent years from flood and storm, and the unusual phenomena in nature which are recurring with increasing rapidity, indicate the days of trial and destruction upon which the inhabitants of this earth are fast entering.

THE sad word comes from Korea that little Lillian, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. Howard Lee, of Soonan, died of diphtheria, February 8. These sorrowing missionaries will have the sympathy and prayers of God's people.