Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-03-06
Correspondence.
For the Standard.
End of the World.


his world be changed, or the earth be {
Perhaps the first question 4
hat should be settled is, will it erer be
It is unquestionably proved !.
" the scriptures and by geology, that )
several great changes have taken place
in the crust of the earth prior to the
present order of things. But as TO the
future there is no light thrown upon the
subject, save that which comes from the
scripture, and even it has been doubted
whether these really foretell an end to
the present structure of the earth, and
the present race of animals upon it. 1t
is about settled that no positive proof can
be found in the old testament. There is
certainly no proof of it in the prophecy I
of Daniel, the great fountain of all mod
ern prophecy on this subject. But those
passages in the new testament which
speak directly of the reservation of the
earth IN destruction by fire, particularly
the I'd Peter s: strengthened by those
which speak of q coming judgment, seem
to prove that the time will come. bow
to this testimony.
! But when? The Savior said, as l be-
lieye, in reference to this subject, "Of
that day and hour knoweth no man" &c.
Matt. "a: SO. And at another time he
said to his disciples, " 1t is not for you to
know the times and the seasons which
the Father hath put in his own power"
It is settled, then, that it is not known,
nor designed TO be. Il is not for US to
l know.
But we may come to a reasonable con-
: clusion when it will not come. 1t will
5 not come until the whole world has been
visited by the missionary, and reasona-
] bic effort made to bring all under the in
3. tiuence of the gospel. However this may
! have been done in past time, it must be
! conceded that the effort was feeble, not
] enough to reasonably satisfy the promise
It cannot come until all the enemies Of
: the cross have been subdued, not By
:. might, nor by power, but by his spirit
Z Christ "must reign until he has put al
II enemies under his feet" till in the dis
pensa;ion of the fullness of times h,
j. gather together in one all things il
d Christ" Much labor this will yet de
1. mand, unless He entirely change thu
d mode of conquest, which we have n,
IS right to assume. Reasoning from til,
n past we cannot come TO a definite conclu
n sion when it is even probable this will b
= done. The present looks more auspieiou
Sc than any former time that the day has
he ems on, enough to encourage every on
ne that loves Zion. And yet the work ma
I'd be long delayed. I said that the oil
IS. testament did not clearly foretell the fins
Id destruction of the world, but if we ca
I'd rely upon its unequivocal promises, "
d. can learn from it when the world sha
a! not come TO an end. Some Of its prom
ises, yet unfnlflled, will take long tim
II. The children of Israel must still hay
sst the land of Canaan-literal Canaan f
Dr. $50 generations. See Chronicles II
- 1913. Here is promise confirms
nat by an oath to Isaac, Jacob and Israel, n
he to be disannulled, TO stand forever th
FILL they should have the literal Canaan fol
thousand generations. The times she
that it was that country in which aftt
we wards spent SO much time, sometimes
Joy and then in sorrow. 1t was given
them when they were few and strange
-" In il. It cannot be construed to ME
any other couutry-it cannot be chang
to a igurative promise by any laws 1
''' plying to such language. It was Il
land in which they sojourned, or ratl
p where Abraham sojourned by divine
rection. This view is confirmed by
Z: of Acts. Step by step the land
T the Philistines, the land in which Il
afterwards lived, is pointed out as
land Of promise. And that the prom
:, was TO a thousand generations, is furt
shown by the los Psalm, Up YER
iox where promise is repeated almost '
? batim. If there are any rules by WI
? we may know what is foretold this pr
? Use is clearly unto thousand gene
tons. True, at this time, and for
4 last 1900 years, they have been di
? herited, but the new testament promis
full and clear that although they
lyme been broken off from their olive t
ross yet when the fnllness of the Gentiles
M come in they shall be restored, giraffe
y, a. 10 their original stock. And in the cE
S The ter in which the apostle diseourses u
He the restoration of Israel, he says, as