A Singular Occurrence by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 7, 1874

A Singular Occurrence.

By Uriah Smith

We learn from the “New World” a Swedish paper published at Chicago, Ill., that two cherry trees at Lake View near that city, were sun struck, Sunday, June 28. As the owner was standing by them suddenly he heard a noise in the trees, and turning round saw the bark splitting and dropping from the upper branches. This continued till it all fell off. Then the leaves fell, and finally the berries withered and died in a few minutes. The paper states that nothing of this kind so far as it knew had ever before occurred. U. S.