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Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1920, Page 6

MARANATHA. Signs of the Lord's Coming. The Sign from Nature. "'JpHE Earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinanee, broken tlie everlasting covenant. . . . , The earth shall reel to and frcf like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage, and the transgression thereof shall !>e heavy upon it.'" Isaili 2-1. Who has not been impressed when observing the fury of our modern hurricanes and tornadoes, that these mighty storms, growing, as they are, so much more frequent and violent, are surely the beginning of the fulfilment of these prophetic utterances? Watchful observers in everv land tell us that great changes are tak'ing place with regard to climate and seasons. We read recently in the Outlook of a terrible hurricane which swept the New Hebrides, and the missionary reported, ''U is really not the hurricane season yet, and no one was looking for a blow. The recruiting vessels were still out, and we hear there have been fourteen weeks; some went down at sea with all hands." 'These are unmistakable evidences that the day of (icid's judgment, is right at hand; for just as s'ureTy as He lias given these signs of the coming day, just so surely will the conviction settle deeply into the heart that He is telling us also by these things that His ■Son is soon to appear. They are not permitted in order to terrify us, but rather to let us know that this old earth is "reeling to and fro," that men may seek safe anchorage to the Rock of Ages.