| Show A ME OF DISASTER THE good wishes so commonly ex em pressed at the opening of the new year do not appear to have had much effect upon the tide of disaster which seems to have bet set in with the ad vent of 1883 fire flood collision collisions shipwreck and other sources of affliction have been prolific of trouble troubie and death during the few days of a year that commenced with BO so many pleasant portents and benedict benedictions foner ionEr inundations on the european continent have spread desolation and misery the collision at th the mouth elmouth of the mersey in which the city of crushed and sunk sent ten human beings to an awful death railroad accidents have malmed and mutilated the bodies of men and women and battered the lives out of others fires have destroyed millions worth of property and the newhall hotel horror caps the climax of the sickening borrows of a dozen days in 1883 if the record continues in anything like the same strain the prognostications of the actions and effects of malenic planetary influences upon this globe will find some correspondence in the actual events of the year let us hope that a turn will come in the tide of its experience that the worst period in its history may prove to be in its commencement and that to the vast majority of the earths inhabitants the new year may prove after sifter all to be a happy one at the same time we cannot close our eyes to the fact that we are entering upon the time of athe the great tribulation and that every word of the inspired ired writers on this ihla momentous period must certainly be fulfilled |
