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The Immortal Words

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 28, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 24.

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The Immortal Words.

“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” This declaration was furnished with a new and striking illustration in one memorial of the Chicago fire brought away by Mr. W. D. Banchor:
“Among the ruins of the Western News Company's establishment, where an immense stock of periodicals and books was reduced to ashes, there was found a single leaf of a quarto Bible charred around the edges. It contained the first chapter of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, which opens with the following words: ‘How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her.’ And that was the only fragment of literature saved from the News Company's great depot.”