Author: Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9781334962165

Excerpt from The Church at Home and Abroad, 1896, Vol. 20 A terrible tornado swept across the city of St.' Louis, Mo., on the evening of May 27, detailed and illustrated accounts of which have doubtless reached all our read ers. The destruction of property and of life was appalling beyond all precedent in the history of our country. The adjacent city of East St. Louis, on the east side of the river, suffered no less severely. The deaths in the two cities are reckoned by hundreds; the value of property destroyed was many millions of dollars - not relieved e, to the losers, as in losses by fire, by insur ance. A calamity so directly from the hand of God, without human responsibility or blame, appeals peculiarly to the hearts of countrymen and Christian brethren. One phase of this appeal is emphasized to our readers, and to all Presbyterians by the facts stated in the following extract from an appeal to our Church from three of her eminent pastors in St. Louis, viz., Drs. Niccolls, Martin and Brookes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.