Tornadoes and Coming Storms
By Editor
A despatch from Syracuse, New York, dated September 15, states that three persons were killed and fifty injured by a tornado which worked a ten-mile trail of destruction across the northern part of Onondaga County that day. Racing across the country, the tornado leveled everything in its path. Barns, schoolhouses, and homes were completely demolished. They used to tell us that these tornadoes were confined to the western plains, where they had manifested themselves for untold ages, but that there was no one there to take observation. We were sure that they would never come into the territory of the East, because they were not indigenous to that climate and locality. But these theories will have to be changed; for just as surely as the Bible is true, we may know that storm and tempest and earthquake and other violent commotions in nature will become more and more general throughout the world. Sometimes people say that they do not like to hear of these things, because they terrify them; but our attempt at refusing to hear about them will not stop their progress, and sometime they may come our way, and if they do, it is well for us to know that there is a divine shelter that will protect us from any semblance of fear at the thought of these things that are coming, because we definitely know from God's prophetic Word just what they mean.