Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 13, 1905

THE following from a press dispatch dated at New York, March 27, calls to mind the prophetic words of the Saviour regarding signs of the last days in the physical world,—“the sea and the waves roaring:” —

Officers of many ocean liners of the last two weeks have told of hurricane winds the like of which they have never seen before, but it remains for the men who command the Hamburg-American liner “Pretoria,” in to-day, nearly four days overdue, to tell of a meeting with cyclonic gales that they rate higher on the seaman’s wind scale than any other reported this winter.

The “Pretoria” ran into the storm on the night of March 14. Captain Schrotter says the wind was blowing one hundred and twenty miles an hour. For five hours the “Pretoria,” leviathan as she is, was rendered helpless by the terrific power of the wind. Seldom does an ocean liner of her size pour oil on the waters, but this was what was done by Captain Schrotter. Otherwise, he says, the “Pretoria” might have rolled over.