Bible readings for the home circle : comprising one hundred and sixty-two readings for public and private study, in which are answered over twenty-eight hundred questions on religious topics . y 19, 1780,when the darkness and gloom were such as to give the general opinion thatthe day of judgment was at hand. See Pres. Dwight, in Connecticut Histor-ical Collections, and other authors quoted in reading, Our Lords GreatProphecy, p. 35. 10. What was the next event under this seal ? And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimelyfigs, when she is shaken of a mig
Bible readings for the home circle : comprising one hundred and sixty-two readings for public and private study, in which are answered over twenty-eight hundred questions on religious topics . y 19, 1780,when the darkness and gloom were such as to give the general opinion thatthe day of judgment was at hand. See Pres. Dwight, in Connecticut Histor-ical Collections, and other authors quoted in reading, Our Lords GreatProphecy, p. 35. 10. What was the next event under this seal ? And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimelyfigs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. Verse 13. This was fulfilled inthe wonderful meteoric shower of Nov. 13, 1833. Describing the scene inthe vicinity of Niagara Falls, one writer says : No spectacle so terribly grandand sublime was ever before beheld by man as that of the firmament descend-ing in fiery torrents over the dark and roaring cataract.— Our First Cent- ury-> P- 33°-Note. — Henry Dana Ward, writing for the Journal of Commerce, in regard tothe falling stars of Nov. 13, 1833, said (issue of Nov. 15, 1833) : Were I tohunt through nature for a simile, I could not find one so apt to illustrate the. 10 If) > o 2 <D a 3C7 W+» 0) o ?H«*-0 £ •H c 0 Si CO o M ^vw. st\ 411 appearance of the heavens, as that which St. John uses in the prophecy.[Rev. 6 : 13.] The falling stars did not come as if from several trees shaken,but as from one; those which appeared in the east, fell toward the east;those which appeared in the north, fell toward the north ; those which ap-peared in the west, fell toward the west; and those which appeared in thesouth, fell toward the south. And they fell not as the ripe fruit falls. Farfrom it; but they flew, they were cast, like the unripe fruit which at first re-fuses to leave the branch; and when, under a violent pressure, it does breakits hold, it flies swiftly, straight off, descending ; and in the multitude falling,some cross the track of other
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