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Aurora Borealis

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 12, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 23, No. 20.

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Aurora Borealis.

WHEN among the signs of the last days, the Aurora is mentioned as being of recent origin, the scoffer immediately denies this. For the benefit of such, I transcribe from Willard's Abridged History of the U. S. A. p. 143. verbatim.
"A phenomenon singular at the time and not yet satisfactorily explained, alarmed the people of New England in 1719. This was the Aurora Borealis, first noticed in this country, on the night of the 17th of December. Its appearance according to the writers of the day, was more calculated to excite terror than later appearances of the same kind." See the record in all our public journals of the remarkable appearances in the heavens in the autumn of 1859. The prophecy of Joel ii, 30, may it not here be fulfilled, at least in part? INQUIRER.