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power, and these massive structures will fall. Scenes will take place
the fearfulness of which we cannot imagine.”
On September 1, 1902, Mrs. White wrote:
“Well equipped tent meetings should be held in the large cities,
such as San Francisco; for not long hence these cities will suffer under
the judgments of God. San Francisco and Oakland are becoming as
Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Lord will visit them in wrath.”
June 20, 1903: “The judgments of God are in our land. The Lord
is soon to come. In fire and flood and earthquake, He is warning the
inhabitants of this earth of His soon approach. O that the people may
know the time of their visitation! We have no time to lose. We must
make more determined efforts to lead the people of the world to see
that the day of judgment is at hand.”
June 3, 1903: “There are many with whom the Spirit of God is
striving. The time of God’s destructive judgments is the time of mercy
for those who have no opportunity to learn what is truth. Tenderly will
the Lord look upon them. His heart of mercy is touched; His hand is
still stretched out to save.”
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November 12, 1902: “The time is nearing when the great crisis
in the history of the world will have come, when every movement
in the government of God will be watched with intense interest and
inexpressible apprehension. In quick succession the judgments of God
will follow one another,—fire and flood and earthquakes, with war and
bloodshed. Something great and decisive will soon of necessity take
place.” [
These and several other extracts of like nature were published
in an article by Mrs. White in the
Review bearing date of July 5, 1906.
]
February 15, 1904: “When I was last in New York, I was in the
night season called upon to behold buildings rising story after story
toward heaven. These buildings were warranted to be fireproof, and
they were erected to glorify the owners. Higher and still higher these
buildings rose, and in them the most costly material was used....
“As these lofty buildings went up, the owners rejoiced with ambi-
tious pride that they had money to use in glorifying self.... Much of
the money that they thus invested had been obtained through exaction,
through grinding the faces of the poor. In the books of heaven, an
account of every business transaction is kept. There every unjust deal,
every fraudulent act, is recorded. The time is coming when in their
fraud and insolence men will reach a point that the Lord will not permit