God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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interior of our planet, we do not wonder that the
inhabitants of its surface are so often reminded of
the “physical hell” lying below the peaceful
woodlands and blue seas.’
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Such earthquakes occur almost every day in
varying degrees of intensity, some regions being
more prone to earthquakes than others. The
earthquakes which struck Shensi, a district in
China, is the oldest of the highly destructive
earthquakes recorded in history. It occurred in 1556
A.D. and took a heavy toll of more than 800,000
lives. Similarly, on the 1st November 1755, a
volcano erupted cataclysmically in Portugal, totally
destroying the city of Lisbon. In the course of this
earthquake, within hardly six minutes, 30,000
people were killed and all the buildings were
destroyed. It has been calculated that this
earthquake caused an area four times the size of
Europe to tremble. Another earthquake of the same
intensity rocked Assam in 1877 A.D. It is reckoned
to be one of the five most violent and devastating
earthquakes on record. The whole of the northern
part of Assam was catastrophically shaken, the
