Power to Scorch Men with Fire
By Editor
"Power" "to Scorch Men with Fire."—It is said that under the sixth plague, when God has withdrawn his unreciprocated kindness from the earth and left sin, which men have chosen, to work its own way, power will be given to the sun "to scorch men with fire." It would seem that the hot wave of the east of last season and this are merciful forewarnings of that time. Our readers will vividly remember the scores of deaths from heat last summer, in the metropolis and other great cities. Once more the east is a furnace. In the cities of Cincinnati, Springfield, Toledo, Chicago, Pittsburg, Detroit, and Fort Wayne, 31 deaths are reported from sunstroke, and 134 prostrations, not including the deaths, and this in one day. There were 12 in the first-named city.