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10 G. od, but it was qece!>Sary that the. writing of Fa,te should have been fulfilled. I say to you· truly that the turn of this country is drawing near. The days of Noah will be before your eyes and the scene of Lot's earth you will see with your own eyes. But God is slow in sending His wrath. Repent that nrnrcy may be shown to you. He who forsakes God is a worm, not a man, and he who does not fear Him is dead, not living. " (Haqiqatul Wahy, pp. 256-7. ) The terrible visitations of Heaven as described in the above prophetic passage are too clear to require any further comment. As stated in the prophecy, it was indeed ordained that all these things should take place even as they had been foretold, and that divers parts of the world should suffer destruction through earthquii,F;es, some of them being so cli~_a$trous as ·to remind one of the- end of all things, Some of these earthquakes took place in the lifetime of God's Messiah and Mahdi such as those that occurred in north-west India, in West-Indies, in For- mosa, in San Francisco, and in Chile, all of which were so extra- ordinary in their nature that the well-known daily English paper, The Pi<Jneer of Allahbad, in its issue dated April 22, 1906, wrote thus in sheer ama. zement : " It would be hard to parallel suph havoc since the first century A. D. " Again the Civil and Military Ga~~tte of Labore, in its issue of February 7, 1907, wrote thus: "The calamitous earthquake jn Jamaic:a fol19wing so soon μpon the pr. odigious chapter of similar c!lta~tropbies fll:mished by 1906. bas set everybody thinking aboqt the inse~μrity of the old earth's crust. What with vok~Pic ernp~ions a~cl earth- quakes the world is manifestly in a very uni;si,tisfactory condition. An eminent seismologist; deeply impressed by tp~ Pllmber of shocks be bai; had to r:egister of l~te. ; call§. it 'e~r{h :unrest. ' This is a constation as tbe French sa. y, but no e:imlaIJation. What we should like very much to know-. Qot that the know- ledge would help us much~is why the earth sho1,1ld be so rei;tless. Although it would be diffic_ult to apply broni. i<le or other. sedatives to the nerves of even a little planet like ours, a mere grain of sand in the universal system, it would be weJI tp, ·know what is going on beneath us, beca-use thi~ would give us a chance of preparing for the worst. The crust of this ancient earth, which is perhaps still too young for our security, is not