Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-31

The PResEsr GREAT AWAKENING AND THE
M1LLESSIUS.-our Washington correspondents
will be noticed, mentions in his letter this morn
ing, that the clergy of Washington City hint
that this great awakening, now so generally pre-
vaiiug throughout the land, may be the herald
of the millennium of the great end of all that is
now being done under the sun
1t has been prevalent idea we all know,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, and learned chronologists,t that
the time apparently indicated by the prophecies,
as recorded in the Old Testament, and the Wis
ions of St John on the isle of Patmos, as re-
corded in the New, together with the facts
which science has brought to light concerning
the strata, incrustations and cOnformations of
different parts of the carth have all tended to
the idea that the world would soon enter IN its
seventh thousand year: that this seventh thous-
and year-from the fact of the number seven
I,.u;.e dIel number IN Ill
BILE reckoning, would inauguratc the millennium
would be the year of Jubilee to all nations,
kindreds and tongues.
Against all this, however, we remember the
predictions concerning the happening of certain
great events which must precedc such consum-
alton. Prominent among these is the gather
ing of the scattered children of Israel to their
ancestral land The sword is to be beaten into
the pruning hook, the lion and the lamb lie
down together, and the nations are to learn war
no more. Instead of all this, we see directly
the opposite. The scattered descendants of the
house ofIsrael are pushing their trade and com
mcrce in Europe and America, as zealously and
successfully as ever. They are moving every
where, where they have been disabled, for full
investiture OF all political rights. The sheen
of the sword, the bayonet, and the deep mouth
en- cannon are preserved among all nations, by
the constant threat of invasion from abroad, or
eruption within.
But besides all this, and, to our mind, incom
parably paramount, is the great fact that this
world is but as it were awaking from sleep
emerging from superstitions and barbarsius of
all sorts. Why, it was but yesterday that the
mariners compass was discovered, that printing
WINS shown TO be practicable, that steam power
was laughed at as an absurdity, and the electric
telegraph ridiculed as the hobby of vagarian's
brain. 4 now world has been found and settled
almost within the span Of sire and son--and that
world is yet but experimenting in its govern
ment. Still more than all, far off in the East,
''in the cline of the Sun" there arc races, ma
tons and tribes, upon whom the light of truth,
science, or even semi burbarism, has never yet
dawned. There are the countless millions of
chinese, Japanese, Turrars, all the dusky
swarms and hordcs of the mountains and plains
Of Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa yet almost
unknown to u.s. What we do know of them is,
that they are wild, untaught, unchristianized
barbarians-no more, apparently, fit for the
companionship of good men made perfect" "
than they are for the calls, duties and priv
ileges of cultivated life.
To say, then, that because we are in the midst
of great religious revival among those who
have sat under the drppings of the sanctuarics
of an enlightened land all their days, that the
world is to be hurried off the stage, it were,
the heavens rolled together as a SCROLL and the
end proclaimed--is, it seems to us, to presume
beyond all warrants of nature, revelation or
science.
We have too much faith in progress-in, il
you WILL the eSbRE sSs II 10 sub
scribe to the doctrines of these theological gen
tlcmen, who hint the last days are at hand.