Reaping the Whirlwind by F.

Signs Publishing Co. · Melbourne, Victoria · Jun 21, 1920

FromAustraliasian Signs of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 25.

Reaping the Whirlwind

By F.

WHILE recently travelling in Europe, Mr. Henry P. Davison, head of the American Red Cross, cabled a most vivid description of the terrible results of the deadly typhus in Russia and the Balkans, stating further that the disease is threatening all Europe and America through the hordes of refugees fleeing from the smitten districts. Commenting on the cable, the San Francisco Examiner of March 26, 1920, declares:—

Dr. Hugh S. Cumming, surgeon-general, said today that he believed Davison’s warning in many respects was rather understated than exaggerated. Dr. Cumming recently returned to Washington, after a two years’ first-hand study of the plague situation in central Europe and confirmed Davison’s report that it was the “greatest danger since the Deluge.” . . .

It was learned today that plague conditions exist in many of the Mediterranean ports from which ships are constantly sailing for the United States. Palermo, Naples, and Genoa, in Italy, Marseilles in France, and Barcelona, Spain, all have cases of bubonic plague or typhus.

Modern science is finding itself totally unable to cope with the terrible epidemics that are sweeping over the world, a situation which reminds us of the declaration of the Christ that “pestilences” in “divers places” would be a sign of His coming. Again, Mr. Davison describes these days as being filled with “the greatest danger since the Deluge,” leaving us with but one honest conclusion when we read another declaration of the Christ that “as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in the days of the Son of man.” Luke 17:26.

For centuries this world has been sowing to the winds its seeds of sin and immorality; now it is reaping the whirlwind. F.