The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-03-16


stPucto ct the Earth. unon calr'ta'irnr
deducrd from periods of time mentioned
in the prophecies in the Bible. principally
those Of Daniel. We listened to them at
ten'Ivefy for the most par, Of he time.
and fel, certain, after they had used all
! their efforts Ia convince their hearers of
, the contrary, that though sincere, thew
are poor deludeI followers of phantom
Missionaries, whose inaginations are
muddy apd troubled, and whose minds
are aslray. d.
They mad hung up to the view of the
audience, a canvass on which were print
ed variety of grotesque images, beasts,
dragons, SC, and also, in large figures,
several calculations all ending with the
iIlslarred 1913, The images, SC. were
intended to represent those spoken of in
the prophecies, and were interpreted by
the preacher. to signify various principal
tiles and powers which have existed, or
tina, still exist amongst the nations. The
principal calculation was long line of
added numbers, beginning at the time of
Daniel and running down to The present
Each number was the period Of some great
battle, conquest, delhronaiion, or some
other remarkable event in the history of
the actions of men, which with consider
able ingenuity were made to agree with
times foretold by some fine prophets, yet
there appeared to US TO be many discrep-
ancies.
1t is said that the Koran of the Ma
hometans teaches that the earth is station
airy, and that the Sun performs daily rcyo-
lu'ions around it, which by the demon
STATIONS of science is proved to be false
hence the book Of the faith of the Turk,
contains within itself, evidence, that
though it abounds with much that is WISE
1t had IFS origin in the ignorance of earth.
| and not in the wisdom of heaven.
So is it with the faith of these believers
in the almost immediate second coming
OF Chrls!,-lheir calculations we con-
! ceiYe have within themselves evidence.
that they are as unlounded as the ..base-
less fabric OF vision" Take, for ex-
ample, one particular, which must have
struck the minds Of all who attended to the
preaching.ln one of the sermons it was
| asserted and considerable effort was made
ITO show, that the years spoken OF in HE
bible were periods of 800 days. Touse
The words OF the preacher, 1850 days 10
the year is Gods time, and any other uum-
Der is mans invention" and al the point
al which he used this declaration, il was
necessary to his calculation to have II so.
And the result of all his cypherngs
whether the data we've prophetic days,
months, years, times or halt times, was
the magical number lSi3-in that year
all the prophecies ran out--hencs the
conclusion, irresistible to his mind, that
in that year destruction was to come upon
the earth. 1913, the reader will rccollect,
according TO them, is not out until the
2lst INST. (OnlyGre days morcnD
Now, as the schoolboy is aware, from
the time of the invention of the Stylus, a
perpendicular rod, by the shadow of which
1t was determined, that it was 365 days
from one Summer Solstice, Qhe day of
The shortest shadow,) Till the next, down
10 the time Of Julius Cesar, 365 days con-
stiluled the year. Caesar finding the mum
Der too short, appointed the in,ercalary,
or odd day every fourth year. That
having proved too much, Gregory XIII,
in 1882, changed the style, and his, the
New Style, was adopted by act of Parlia-
ment in Great Britain and the American
Colonies, in the year 1852, when / days
were struck out, and hereafter the 29h off
February is TO be left out ofleap year in
each Of three successive centenary years
and retained in the fourth, or omitted three
tines in 400 years, and so on.
Without going farther back, it is certain
that the years Aano Domiai with the ex-
cGpion ofl752, (when l l days were lost,
have been periods of 1851 days each
But the years of our Millerite brethren by
their own showing, are periods of 800
days, consequently they lose ST days in
each year In the year 1913, Gods time
recollect,) according to them, the world
was to come to all end. Now 1913 pc