The Falling Stars of 1833
IN renewing his subscription to the REVIEW, Brother John Place, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, who is now eighty-one years of age, states that he has taken this paper ever since it first started under the name of Present Truth. Brother Place further writes:— Will you please ask all who saw the stars fall Nov. 13, 1833, to write to the REVIEW? I for one saw them. My father and mother lived in Rhode Island on a farm. Father had gone to Boston, sixty miles away, to sell a load of poultry, and mother sat up waiting for him. She called us children, and said, “I think the judgment day has come; for the heavens are all on fire.” I went into the yard under an apple-tree, and O, what a sight! The air was literally full of balls of fire, which fell to within about twenty feet of the ground, and then went out, as a lamp blaze when turned down. I see them yet; blessed sign of my Saviour’s near return! We should be glad to hear from any others who were eye-witnesses of this remarkable phenomenon. It is evident that the generation has not yet passed away which saw the signs of the coming Saviour, but the time is growing very short. We must now work “with intense earnestness.”