"THE field is wasted, the land mourneth ; for the corn is wasted. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen ; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley ; because the harvest of the field is perished*. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number." Joel 1 : 10, 11, 6. I never was so impressed with the meaning of this chapter as I have been during the last few weeks. Letter after letter we have received from persons requesting the SIGNS, saying they would gladly pay double the price of the paper but the grasshoppers have destroyed their crops. One brother from Kansas says : "The grasshoppers have destroyed every green thing, and God only knows how I shall support my family." Another writes from Arizona, "My corn is wholy destroyed by grasshoppers, and other grain is not a quarter crop."
What does all this signify ? Joel continues in verse 15, "For the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come."
J. E. W.