A 17 Inch Shell

An officer in the Field Artillery was telling me about these huge 17-inch shells. The sound of their passage through the air is like an express train, and when they fall and explode they made a hole in the ground fifty feet across and thirty feet deep.
He told me that one day he saw a soldier standing petrified at the sound made by one of these shells coming. He had no power to move from the spot where he was and to fly to a place of safety. Where he stood he was just in the line of the shell. As it fell it drove the poor man before it right into the earth!
But the wrath of man, terrible as it is, is as nothing compared to the “day of wrath” that is coming upon this world. When the great day of His wrath is come who shall be able to stand?
No sinner will be able to flee from the wrath of God then, but will have to fall before its awful fury. When it falls upon the sinner it will drive him straight to hell. Now the cry to the sinner is, “Flee from the wrath to come.” There is a way of escape now. There is a Saviour who calls you, and will save you now.