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The Greatest Disaster

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 14, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 14.

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The Greatest Disaster

By T. H. Jeys

WHEN some great cataclysm of nature startles us with its suddenness and awfulness, we stand aghast at the wreckage wrought.
A Galveston gale, a San Francisco earthquake, a sinking Titanic, a cyclone, a fire, a flood, a famine, will serve to fill the human heart with fear. But not one nor all of these can begin to compare with that which is the supreme terror, and before which all these sink into trivial insignificance.
A wasted life is the acme of dreadful, distressing disaster. Slyly, steadily, steals the enemy upon his prey, and before he is aware, the consciousness of a misspent life strikes terror to the victim.
O dreamer, awake!
"Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Finds naught achieved, and duty's task undone." T. H. JEYS.