THE GREAT METEORIC SHOWER OF 1833—ITS EXTENT.
It has been thought that the great meteoric display of November, 1833—foretold in prophecy—was confined largely to the Western continent, especially North America. But this was not the case, as it was visible in Europe as well as in this country, as the following, from Word and Works, of February, 1906, clearly shows: Query Editor:—I see in the “Query Corner,” of the June number of WORD AND WORKS, that reference is made to the great meteoric shower, which occurred in November, 1833. I saw that wonderful and magnificent shower. I can not now say whether it occurred on the thirteenth or fourteenth of the month. I was then in England. The shower must have commenced there between six and seven o’clock in the evening, as I was on my way home from the factory where I then worked. I was then in the nineteenth year of my age. I have said it was a most magnificent sight; language can not describe it. I confess that I was somewhat alarmed, having read of aerolites and meteoric showers, and of persons being killed by them, and fear led me to increase my speed so as to get a roof over my head. I then stood and contemplated the sublime exhibition of something I could not understand. I simply desire to testify that the meteoric shower of 1833 was the most wonderful, the most sublime, I ever saw. Those that have occurred since seem to me too insignificant when compared with that one in 1833. Yours in the work of the Master.—Rev. John D. Sands, Belmont, Iowa.