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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 28, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 26.

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Earthquake Thoughts

By E. J. HIBBARD

E. J. HIBBARD
On Tuesday, April 17, for more than eight hours San Francisco's “select,” and others, stood in line for tickets to the grand opera; where Caruso, the world's grandest tenor soloist, was to sing. That night the building was packed to the roof.
Two or three days later most of these same people stood for hours, some ladies in sealskin sacques and calico skirts, waiting their turn for one yellow soda biscuit.
“Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your hands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts: a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.” Isa. 28: 22.
“And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and still cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon [The woman called “Babylon the Great” “is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” Rev. 17: 4-6, 18. The same was “drunken with the blood of the saints.” This system now involves the whole earth,] be thrown down, and shall be found no more, at all. “And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; and the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.” Rev. 18: 21-24.
To complete the parallel, please find your Bible and read the whole chapter.
Can we realize, dear brethren, that this, the destruction of the rollicking sport of the whole earth, is just at hand? Also its traffic and greed shall be suddenly checked. Sad day for Adventists, too, if any of us are seeking worldly gain or pleasure.
“Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.” Isa. 26: 20, 21.
San Francisco, Cal.