The Treasures of Hail

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 27, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 29.

The Treasures of Hail

A NUMBER of earthquake shocks were experienced in southern California and northern Mexico during the latter part of June. There was some loss of life, and considerable property damage. On June 25, a tornado virtually destroyed Red Cliff and Grassy Lake, in Alberta. These earthquakes and this storm have very quickly followed the tornadoes and wind and rain and hailstorms that worked so much havoc in Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma on June 18. And these storms were followed by what is thus far probably the worst storm of the season on July 7, when Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Nebraska were visited by tornado, violent windstorm, hail, and flood.

Reports coming from northeastern India tell of the fearful hailstorm there, which destroyed property, killing people and animals, and breaking down everything but the most substantial buildings. A thousand houses are said to be in ruins in one small city. Some of the hailstones weighed nearly two pounds apiece. Trees that had withstood the storms of centuries, were overturned and torn to pieces.

Reading of these storms, and particularly of the hail, which is becoming so much more frequent, reminds one vividly of the question that the Lord asked Job: “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?” Job 38: 22, 23.

The climax of these stormy conditions will be reached under the seventh plague. “There fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.” Rev. 16: 21.

Some men try to explain away mystically these plain warnings from the divine Book; but the wickedness of this world is reaching the point where God can no longer protect it from the prince of the power of the air, and the judgments of the Almighty are consequently falling everywhere.