Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1843-05-09
From Kendall's ExpOsitOr.
THE END.

The comet is gone without setting the
world in flames. II seems even to have
carried off portien Of the heat which
warns the earth, and poor sinners are
freezing to death, instead OF burned up.
The earthquakesappeat to have exhausiN
ed themselves in shaking TO peices a few
little islands, instead Of rending contin'
ents and breaking up the great globe it.
self. Within few days, the weather
has given decisive indication that "seed
time" is returning, doubtless "harVest"
will follow. "The end IS not yet" the
calculations and prediction of the Miller
ties Notwithstanding.
The idea that the grea! architect is
about to destroy this young world is an
impulation upon his wisdom. 1t is not
yet half peopled. 1t just beginning to
be useful. True, in the great desert Of
Africa and Arabia there is something
like bald head; but look at America
and the Isles of the Ocean which seemed
10 be the creation of yesterday. EvenEu'
rope has scarcely arrived at manhood,
and in most of Asia and Africa there are
no signs of decay. The evident design
of the earth's Builder is not half accom-
plished. Civilization is to spread OYER
it; millions of intelligent human beings
are TO live where savages and wild
beasts now roam; the principles of Chris
tianity and the light Of science are TO
ameliOrate the hearts and the conditions
of men, and every thing on earth CARR.
ed far towards perfection. When the
globe becomes peopled to its utmost ca
pacity; when improvement is no longer
possible; when its fertile fields IN eve.
cry latitude begin to be covered with
driving sands or perpetual snow; when
mankind with natural causes, disappears
from its mountains and plains, then may
we expect the regeHerating fire. Then
will the materials of our earth need
working over, to be made fit for some
useful purpose in the economy of the u
inverse.
Such is the revelation of nature, the
dictate of reason, and the faith Of that
religion which believes there is nothing
capricious in the character or acts Of
Him who rules all worlds. Nor is there
any thing inconsistent with it in the book
whence all sects of Christians deduce
their creeds.
Let ancient women, womenlsh'
and timid children dismiss their fears
The world will roll on for the next six
thousand years very much as il has done
for the last six with the difference that
the human family will multiply faster,
and attain to a much higher rank in the
scale of animate existence. The pres.
ent preachings to the country are partly
deIusion and partly fraud. In effect, they
are another Of those humbugS by which
the artfuI and dishonest cOntrive to live
in idleness upon the labor Of their de-
luded followers. What trembling be-
levers in the faith of Miller, will not
give food, raiment and money to the
Herald that briggs these startling tldings,
and the more freely because all, all is to
be burnt up within one short year! Mil
lersm has the advantage of Mormonism
in one particular: 1t feeces the flock
much quicker, and then turns it over to
be roasted: but, on the other hand, Nor
monism pens and cherishes the flock
that il may be fleece from year to year
Each plan is effectua in itsiway; and it is
melanchoI6 to behold rational beings
W no claim to be intelligent, duped into
supporting by their labor a set of idle
knaves, who become teachers of lies tina
they may live by the vocation.