Did They See It? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 9, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 28.

Did They See It?

By Editor

Much is being made in some quarters over an alleged appearance of our Lord in a Catholic church in Morne Rouge, a suburb of St. Pierre. The story is that this appearance was taken as a warning, and that the three hundred persons who saw it were saved. Now, in the first place, Morne Rouge was not destroyed. (2) In times of great excitement among a superstitious people, imagination works wonders. (3) Satan is ever ready to counterfeit every holy thing there is; and he will appear to many as an angel of light. (4) In the city of St. Pierre there were many devout Catholics praying in the great cathedral; but they perished, while wicked people and all, religious and irreligious generally, of Morne Rouge escaped. We see no more significance in the story than in many others in which great marvels and miracles are reported. Righteousness, the keeping of God's commandments, is more than seeing miracles.