Excerpt from The Great Tribulation: Or the Things Coming on the Earth Nor is the commercial air less convulsed. During 1857 a commercial panic, called in the Times newspaper a commercial earthquake, smote Europe and Ame rica, and house after house, alike Old and prudent and reliable, fell. Banks exploded one after another. The prince-merchants Of yesterday are penniless to-day; and widows and orphans innumerable have been reduced from comparative competence to absolute beggary. 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.