DISASTROUS DROUGHT by L. A. S.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 6, 1901

DISASTROUS DROUGHT.

By L. A. S.

A LARGE section of the country has suffered from a severe drought. In many places prayers for rain were offered, but the fierce heat still continued. A drought which destroys grain and pasturage is a calamity that is severely felt.

But there is another drought that prevails in the land over as vast an area; not visible in the same way, but no less real. It is the drought that comes from the lack of spiritual moisture—the drought of the soul upon which no spiritual rain has fallen for months, or it may be, years. The consequences of this drought are even more disastrous than those lately experienced in the physical world.

There is great need of prayer for the removal of this spiritual drought. It is a voluntary drought; it need never come upon any person anywhere, and its cause can be removed at any time. Drought in

the natural world is unavoidable, but spiritual drought is so much more disastrous that God will never subject any person to it against his will.

Especially should the Church to which God has committed the great world-message for this time, be aroused to untiring vigilance against such a calamity. A drought in this Church would be a drought in the district upon which depends the food supply of the world, and wholesale spiritual starvation might be the result.

It is not a time of drought; it is a time of rain. Therefore, “ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain.” This is a prayer for rain that will not fail of an answer. L. A. S.