STORM-TOSSED by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 28, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 26.

STORM-TOSSED

By Editor

ON Monday night, June 12, a black funnel-shaped cloud descended upon the little town of New Richmond, Wisconsin, and almost completely destroyed it. On Tuesday night, June 13, the little town of Herman, Nebraska, was almost annihilated and a hundred persons killed by the terrible tornado. Every day or two the reports reach us, telling of the fearful work that these storms are doing in various parts of the country.

Some are trying to console themselves by the thought that none of these storms have ever visited their part of the world and therefore they are out of the "tornado belt." But the Lord tells what the cyclone belt will be in these last days, in the following graphic language:—

"I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by His fierce anger. For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end." Jer. 4:23-27.

"All the cities" are to be "broken down at the presence of the Lord and by His fierce anger." And "thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate." "All the cities" and "the whole land" are to be broken down and desolated. This is the divine statement of what the "tornado belt," the "storm belt," and the "earthquake belt," is. The Lord has decreed it, and it will be so. And it is all because of the wickedness of this time. The warning has been clearly and fully given. We are in the very midst of the perils of the last days. Heed God's warnings and live. He has a shelter for all.