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On the Pacific Coast

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 21, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 25.

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On the Pacific Coast

By Walter Harper

I FINISHED my large delivery of orders in Arizona and New Mexico on March 4, at Albuquerque, N. M. I started for California that evening. About one o'clock that night the train was wrecked—derailed—about one hundred and two miles west of Albuquerque. I was somewhat bruised in the side, but was not delayed. I was all right after a few days' rest and treatment at the beautiful Loma Linda Sanitarium, near Redlands, Cal. It is truly refreshing to visit this charming place, and drink in the healthy spiritual atmosphere pervading it. We bespeak for Loma Linda success, and it certainly deserves it. God is good to give our people possession of so grand an institution, so admirably situated.
The Lord wrought marvelously in sustaining me in my arduous work, and gave marked success in getting orders. At times it seemed as if I was fairly overwhelmed with work, and I could not stand the heavy strain.
On April 18, the day of the great earthquake in central California, I was off in San Bernardino County, nearly five hundred miles from San Francisco, busy filling orders. We felt no shock whatever there, and the first tidings we had of it was late that afternoon when word came over telephone from the nearest main line railroad station. Since then I visited the city of San Francisco, San Jose, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and the Stanford University. The sight is appalling. One's mind is carried forward to the time of the seven last plagues and the desolation of the earth. It seems as if we have an object-lesson of that terrible time when the Lord will rise to shake terribly the earth. O may we take warning, flee to the sure fortress, and make God our refuge! Then we shall have no fear as to what a day will bring forth.
I have spent several weeks in canvassing in the southern counties of California since I returned to the State. God blessed in a wonderful way. Soon I go to labor for a time in the coast counties.
WALTER HARPER.