Another Great Prophecy Fulfilled — Page 14
14 ment···. ·. Expfainfog· 'this prophecy. . in "th~ Haqiqatu1-· Waht, the Promfaed Messiah i,yrites : "God had revealed to me that heavy rains would fall, causing the houses to be gutted with water. Then, earthquakes will follow. " This prophecy, as l have already said, has met with complete fulfilment in the case of this devastating earthquake of the 15th of January last. Every one knows that towards the end of tl::e last rainy season unusually heavy rains fell which caused serious floods in many parts of the country, including the Rohtak district, in the Punjab, the valley of the Gomty river, in the U P. , Midnapur, Bihar and Orissa. That these places heavily suffered from floods towards the end of 1933 is a well-known fact. Close upon the heels of these floods came this new and wholly unexpected calamity of ~he-earthquake, as a result of which huge chasms and fissures ~p. peared j!1 the ground, releasing the pent-up furi. es of the subterranean waters of the earth. These waters, reinforced:. by the deluges of the skies, became powerful allies of the earth- quake, and the three of them together scourged the whole stricken area in the most frightful manner. Details of Devastation As tci the loss of life and property, caused by this earthquake it is a heart-rending and soul-harrowing tale of death and destruction. It is not yet possible to tell accurately the total number of the lives lost. The Government has tried to give certain figures from time to time but all these afterwards proved to be wrong. In reality, so far no exact figures at all can be given. Where whole towns and villages have ·been wiped out of existence, where thousands and thousands of houses and buildings have totally collapsed, including the houses of the J?iddle classes, the mud-huts of the poor, the grand and stately edifices and spacious bungalows of the rich, the Govern· ment buildings, large factories and workshops, busy market- places, and whole rows of shops, and all being converted into dll. sty heaps of ruins, with the dead and putrifying bodies of the uqfortunate inmates lying inextricably buried beneath the debris, how can one tell correctly as to bow magy lives. ha~e been lost 0 ?