What Does It Mean to You?
What Does It Mean to You?—Our hearts sympathize with the sufferers from the awful storms and tempests and tornadoes and floods which have swept so many states in the great Mississippi Valley. See our Outlook department for fuller mention. Floods in Ohio are not unprecedented, and human greed and carelessness are denuding the land of its forests, and in poor construction of dams and levees, are somewhat responsible. But the tornadoes are unprecedented. When the writer was a boy, a very destructive tornado was a rare thing. They were never looked for save in the heated season, in which electric storms were common. They come in winter now. The sin-laden earth has waxed old like a worn and frazzled garment, as God declared it would (Ps. 102:25, 26; Heb. 1:10-12), and it is nearing the end of its sinful career. Soon the Christ of God will come preparatory to its folding up and changing. Men may sneer and laugh at the Word, but they will not when they meet face to face the out-working of finished sin, these awful spasms of outraged nature. The wise will seek that Refuge to which God invites, the shelter of the mighty Rock, the sheltering, rescuing Hand which snatches from the grave its prey, the Life which conquers death in righteousness, and saves the trusting one to a better world, sinless, stormless, deathless, the great Forever-land, God's country. It is worth while, soul, to trust in the One who is "able to save."