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The Chicago Fire and the Coming of the Lord

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 5, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 25.

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The Chicago Fire and the Coming of the Lord.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

REV. R. PATTERSON, D. D., thus truly spoke with regard to the lesson taught by this wonderful fire:— “The lesson to other ungodly cities. It is not because Chicago is worse than many other cities, but because she is more prominent, that God has selected her as the theater of judgment. Those eighteen men on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye they were sinners above all men who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you nay; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. God does this thing for an example, for a warning. Let Cincinnati take heed. If God spared not Chicago, let St. Louis tremble and repent. Let Philadelphia, and New York, and Pittsburg, turn from their iniquities, and live. For the day of the Lord is coming, and these fires are its predicted forerunners, when sudden destruction shall come upon every ungodly community, like a thief in the night, like travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. Immediate repentance is the grand lesson preached to every ungodly man and woman by the smoldering ruins of Chicago. Come to Christ now for pardon, oh! sinners, wherever you are, and he will save you from the everlasting burnings which shall consume all the enemies of God. The Lord is coming with flaming fire to take vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
The prophet says, “I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke . . . before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.” Joel 2:30. Can ye not discern the signs of the times?
D. M. CANRIGHT.