p. 166 | WHO CAN DOUBT by R. A. Underwood

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, March 17, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 11

WHO CAN DOUBT

By R. A. Underwood

THAT “the angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.” A most striking illustration of the fulfillment of the above promise of God was brought forcibly to our notice a few evenings since. The night was bitter cold. We were holding meetings in the Adventist church at Berea, W. Va. Bro. E. B. and wife left three small children at home while they came to meeting. The children retired, and soon were wrapped in sound sleep. A fire had been left burning in the open fire-place; and by some means (we know not how) the casement surrounding it was ignited. The fire extended nearly four feet up the side of the dry ceiling, reaching out in breadth, with dry poplar lumber and other combustible material upon which to prey. One moment more, and the whole room would have been in flames, with three innocent children to perish. The parents were at church. No human eye or hand was near to avert the inevitable fate of the slumbering little ones! But He that doth not slumber was watching that scene. Imagine the feelings of those parents on their return as they entered their home and beheld the ashes, coals, charred ceiling which told the story of fire! The children were wakened, but knew nothing of its existence or how it was put out. The parents fell upon their knees, and with tears of joy thanked God for the wonderful deliverance of their children from a burning home. As I examined the ceiling that had been burned to coals and blackened by flames, I was thoroughly convinced that God sent an angel to extinguish that fire, as were others also who examined the same. Oh that we might ever remember “he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.” Zech. 2:8. R. A. Underwood