The Battle of the Elements

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 9, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 19.

The Battle of the Elements

Combatting the elements is the most shocking and enervating of all physical warfare. Some of the troops engaged in preserving order in San Francisco were Spanish War and Philippine veterans, and they say the scenes and surroundings on the city fire line caused the battlefields of Santiago, Manila, and Mindanao wilds to pale into insignificance. In the great battle of the elements when the almighty God shall pour out His plagues upon the finally impenitent hosts, there will be no human power that will be able to stand before His lightnings and hail and earthquake and abnormal heat of the sun. Revelation 16; also 17:11-18. The present earthquakes and fires are but advance warnings of the more terrible and more general terrors not far in the future. "Who shall be able to stand?" Rev. 6:17. "Who may abide the day of His coming?" Mal. 3:2.