Among the “casualties and calamities,” for the last week, reported in our news columns on page 14, it will be noticed that Nebraska was swept by wind and hail-storm; a portion of an island of the Caroline group, together with some of its inhabitants, was swept away by a tidal wave; earthquakes occurred in California and Indiana; the famine is still raging in Russia; a terrific tornado destroyed a large part of the property and people of Kirksville, Mo.
We can not fail to notice that storms and calamities are becoming most numerous, and they are being felt in unusual places. And it should be remembered that what the world is seeing in these lines now is only a very small matter as compared with what lies just ahead of us. Scientific men and weather prophets try to account for all these things, but their skill is baffled. There is nothing that stands the test except the writings of the inspired prophets of old. They have fully foretold us of these things, and they also tell us what they mean.