LOOK UP | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 24, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 42.

LOOK UP.

The celebrated traveler, Baron Humboldt, wrote a thrilling account of the first earthquake he ever witnessed. The earthquake was at Cunama, South Africa. The first shock came after a strange stillness, and produced a terrible shock in the baron’s mind, upsetting all his previous notions as to the permanency of the earth. He could no longer trust the ground that had seemed so firm and solid under his feet. The houses could not shelter him, for they were tumbling to the ground. He turned to the trees, but they were being thrown down. He looked toward the sea, and its waters had so receded that ships were rolling on the sand. He thought of fleeing to the mountain, and looked that way; when lo! the mountains were reeling to and fro like a drunken man. He turned his eyes toward the heavens above him, and of all he could see they alone seemed calm, firm, immovable. Let Christians read and learn a lesson. Look up. “There’s nothing firm but heaven.”—St. Louis Advocate.