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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 5, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 14.

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STORMS.

By Editor

THE news of storms, earthquakes, tidal waves, etc., keeps pouring in from all parts of the world. Ships are being dashed to pieces by sea, and houses and other property are being broken up and destroyed on land. Such a condition is without precedent, and men should inquire into the true meaning of it. Why there are such awful disturbances in nature, and why they are so appallingly on the increase, may not be learned from the study of anything outside the Bible. But the Bible makes this matter perfectly plain. More than twenty-five hundred years ago the prophet was inspired to write:—
"From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, wo unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again." Isa. 24:16-20.
It is a wondrous yet solemn thought that we have reached the time when the foregoing prophecy is being literally fulfilled. And it should ever be kept before the people that the storms both by sea and land that we have had so far, are as nothing when compared with what there will be in the near future. And every one should also know that there is a safe shelter from every one of these calamities that are coming upon the earth.