IF I HAD BUT ONE SERMON TO HEAR
In 1906 Charles Reynolds Brown was preaching in the San Francisco Bay area of California. That spring, on the Sunday generally designated as Easter, he and the other preachers of the region spoke to full houses. Years later, he mentioned that particular Sunday in his lectures to the young men at Yale University and said, "How differently I would have preached, if. I had only known that many of those in my audience were hearing the last sermon that they would ever hear." Neither the preachers nor their listeners could possibly have known that the great San Francisco earthquake was to come on the following Wednesday morning and that many of them would be killed before another Sunday had arrived
SOURCE: If I Be Lifted Up, Batsell Barrett Baxter, p 19