Wreckage of a railway station, and of the buildings of a rowing club, near New Orleans, following the terrific hurricane that swept through that section of the country the last week in September.
Whole towns were swept away by the storm, which reached a velocity of one hundred and twenty to one hundred and forty miles an hour. Many persons are reported killed and injured, and a rough estimate places the property damage at over twelve million dollars.
The Master said, when He was here in person, that immediately preceding His second coming, there would “be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” Luke 21:25, 26.
Any one who is at all observing, does not require the aid of statistics to show that destructive and terrifying storms are increasing from year to year; and according to the prophetic Word, they will continually increase until the world meets the great climax of physical disturbances in the seven last plagues that are foretold in the sixteenth chapter of Revelation. These things have no terrors for the one who understands what they mean, and who knows, from practical experience, the protection of the almighty Father.
