Excerpt from Rebuilding on the Rock: A Popular Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society for the Year 1918-19 Like some vast convulsion of nature, the war has wrecked and desolated half the world. Speakers and writers Often compare it to an earthquake; but among those who make that comparison few have proved for themselves what an earthquake actually means. To feel the solid ground rocking and reel ing and heaving and gaping into chasms beneath your feet must be of all mortal experiences the most appalling. The stoutest nerves give way under such an ordeal, which drives even dumb beasts half-wild with fear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.