p. 181 | Signs of the End by Dudley Marvin Canright

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 21, 1871

Signs of the End.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

STORMS on the sea, scores of vessels wrecked; storms on the land, villages destroyed, hundreds of lives lost; unnatural and fearful fires devouring whole cities and villages and devastating the country; what next? A whole county is swallowed up in the bowels of the earth. Who cannot see in all this, omens of the end? God help us to be awake.

WONDERFUL PHENOMENON—THE FOUNTAINS OF THE GREAT DEEP BROKEN UP—TOWNS, TREES, MEN AND ANIMALS INGULPHED,

Special Dispatch to the Inquirer.]

NEW YORK, September 18, 1871.

The following extraordinary dispatch has been received here from Savannah, Georgia: “A startling phenomenon has just occurred in Florida. A large portion of Orange County has been changed to a lake, and trees, houses and people ingulphed. There were many witnesses of the phenomenon. They say the first thing that attracted attention was trees moving first in gyratory motion, some sinking gradually out of sight, the tops receding more and more rapidly as they sank and disappeared, others following, and, as they fell, revolving and describing arcs of a circle against the sky; then the whole earth, as far as the eye could reach, sinking, and its place supplied by a sea of water, rushing, seething, boiling, with a noise as of mighty cataracts, and ever and anon casting to the surface roots and tops of bodies of mighty pines and oaks. The country in every direction is entirely submerged, and is now one vast lake. It is rumored that the town of Orlando is entirely swallowed up, and the whole chain of lakes from Apaka to Lake Conway are now united and form an immense inland sea. The people are flying, terror-stricken, from the scene of disaster.”

D. M. CANRIGHT.