DR CUMMING ON EARTHQUAKES.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 534, 24 July 1869, Page 3

DR CUMMING ON EARTHQUAKES.

Dr Gumming lectured lately in his own church, from the words " Earthquakes in divers places." He said he thought the most splendid commentary on the Book of Revelation was the daily newspapers, because what the prophetic word said should happen the newspapers recorded every morning had been done. Dr Cumming, after reading extracts from the newspapers detailing the effects of the earthquakes which have visited various parts of the world since the beginning of 1867, went on to say that material convulsions were always accompanied by great social changes ; and when, in addition to such startling material phenomena as had lately occurred, we remembered the prodigious preparations for war being made on every hand, as well as other signs of the times both at home and abroad, we might be assured that we were on the eve of a tremendous change, which was no other than that spoken ot by the prophet Haggai—" Tet a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land." All scripture seemed to indicate that the troubled condition of our earth was drawtog to an end, aud even newspaper editors predicted that the present state of affairs in the political world could not last much longer. He (Dr Cumtoing) regarded what was now taking

place as premonitory signs of stupendous social changes, fraught with the gravest issues. The Saviour had stated that these things should precede the second coming, and it was during the seventh vial that it was written that there would be earthquakes, lightnings, and thunders such as never bad been seen since men were in the world. It appeared to him, however, that still there remained to come one shock so startling, so terrific, and of such huge and unprecedented proportions, that even thoughtless men would begin to be awakened, and to turn their attention to phenomena which hitherto they had only sneered at and ridiculed.