Emphasis Preaching Journal

Visitors to Pompeii catch a sense of the great loss that came suddenly upon it at the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. So also we can stand helpless before the reruns, on television, of incidents like the explosion of the first atomic bomb, or the explosion of the spacecraft "Challenger." We can watch for the second, third, tenth time the moving scenes of a Mexico City falling down in an earthquake. We can observe the anniversary of the Colombian disaster by watching the rivers of lava rush through the valleys to devour homes and people.