While at Loma Linda, Calif., April 16, 1906, there passed before me a most wonderful
representation. During a vision of the night, I stood on an eminence, from which I could
see houses shaken like a reed in the wind. Buildings, great and small, were falling to the
ground. Pleasure resorts, theaters, hotels, and the homes of the wealthy were shaken and
shattered. Many lives were blotted out of existence, and the air was filled with the shrieks
of the injured and the terrified.{CL 8.6}
The destroying angels of God were at work. One touch, and buildings so thoroughly
constructed that men regarded them as secure against every danger, quickly became
heaps of rubbish. There was no assurance of safety in any place. I did not feel in any
special peril, but the awfulness of the scenes that passed before me I cannot find words to
describe. It seemed that the forbearance of God was exhausted, and that the judgment day
had come. {CL 9.1}
The angel that stood at my side then instructed me that but few have any conception of
the wickedness existing in our world today, and especially the wickedness in the large
cities. He declared that the Lord has appointed a time when He will visit transgressors in
wrath for persistent disregard of His law. {CL 9.2}
Terrible as was the representation that passed before me, that which impressed itself
most vividly upon my mind was the instruction given in connection with it. The angel
that stood by my side declared that God's supreme rulership, and the sacredness of His
law, must be revealed to those who persistently refuse to render obedience to the King of
kings. Those who choose to remain disloyal, must be visited in mercy with judgments, in
order that, if possible, they may be aroused to a realization of the sinfulness of their
course.-- Testimonies, vol. 9, pp. 92, 93. (1909) {CL 9.3}
