Calamities and the Uncertainty of Life
By Editor
A street-car disaster near Atlantic City, N. J., on the night of the 28th ult., resulted in the death of fifty-nine persons, and many others were more or less injured. The cars left the rails and plunged over a bridge into the water. A despatch from Tokyo, Japan, dated October 28, reports a hurricane off Goto Island, which destroyed 228 coral-fishing vessels, drowning 822 persons. About one hundred others were injured. There were 1,210 men aboard the vessels. More than a score of lives were suddenly put out by the burning of the Chamber of Commerce Building in Kansas City, on the 26th ult. Such occurrences, in connection with the great hurricane and tidal wave that swept the coasts of Florida and Cuba on the 17th ult., causing a loss of six hundred lives and $4,000,000 in property, are strong reminders of the uncertainty of life. Who knows that he will have a to-morrow in this life? One thing we do know, however, and that is, "Now is the accepted time" to seek peace with God; "now is the day of salvation."