Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-14
~ Harper's WeeEly=of July 9th there is an

IN Hayper's Weekly of July 9th there is an
article by the DR.. Martyr Payne, L. l.. D., in
which the learned Doctor labors to show the
probabilities of the great battle Of Revelation
being near at hand. The learned gent. denies
that his designis to raise any alarm in the com.
munity and disdains being "a new light" he
sets out by promising that there are four unful.
filled prophecies that will be accomplished in
the following order: First, the overthrow of
the Mohammedan power; second, of the papal
power; third, the universal diffusion of chris.
tianity; fourth, the conversion and restoration
ofthe Jews! He also promises that, by the
authority of the best interpreters, we are now
living under the "Sixth Trumpet" ofSt john
Thequestiont TO which the Dr., thus sets him.
selfto nnravelling is, the period of the advent
ofthe Seventh Trumpet when the above pro-
phecies are TO be fulfilled.
According to prophecy the seventh trumpet
is to be sounded ut the expiration Of the "sec.
ond woe" the one under which, we are told,
we. at present rest. This woe, the Dr. agrees,
is the pnpnl power, so the matter to be first
settled, is, when did the spapacy first begin?-
He quotes from bishop Newton, who thought it
most probable, it is to be dated from the year
727, but who inclines to the opinion that it may
have been the year COG, when the tyrant Pho
ces, by virtue of grant the Pope established
his supremacy. This seems remarkablet to him
and obtains corroboration from the fact that the
year COG is the year in which Mohammed first
published his false doctrines. Now, adding the
1860 days of St. John, which equally with the
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DAVID mean, in prophetic language, 1860 years
Ito the COS We have 1866, the year in which
the seventh trumpet is to be sounded This
will be the era, then, as near as the learned
Doctor can make it out, when the great battlco
Revelation will be fought, and the Ottoman and
Papal powers will fall. The former he says, is
already tottering, whilst the latter power is in
its decadence, all Of which facts give color to
his Interpretation ofsthe prophecies.
We know very little about the learned Martyr
Paine, NJ. D., L. L. D., although the Harpcrs
Weekly now speak of his possessing a "high
reputation OF course we not knowing him,
we argue ourselves unknown" yet this is
= .r.isfnntnnes We
would, however, presume so far upon The Doc
tors good nature, to suggest to him that ii is
taking pretty high ground for him, an u. d
and not a D. D., TO be teaching the Sculptures
and assuming to clear up the mysteries thereof.
Didn't the Rev, Mr.. Cunnlins, who was bona
fide D. D., and all the way from London, a few
years ago make us poor mortals "horribly to
shake ourselves" with apprehensions that the
battle of Armageddon was just going to be
fought? Didn't he argue out his theory of i'm
depreciation almost to a demonstration and yet,
wasn't he all the time most ingloriously hum
bugging US? Time has done the Job for Cum
minis and we warn DIR. Paine to be on the look
out for q similar fate. We will surely mourn
with him, if we happen to be living in the year
1866, not only on account Of the personal mis-
fortune 10 the Doctors thigh regulations" but
because ace Oct others shake and tremble as
they willy are absolutely DESTROYS TO sec the
millennium set in Then, VIC will have butchers
and bakers who will give honest weight and
politicians that can't be bribed. We will have
preachers who will practice their own teachings
and lawyers that will counsel justly. We will
have no more quacks aud above all the age of
humbuggery will have passed by
Let the Doctor stick to his peStle and mortar
and avoid speculative theology altogether. He
is dealing with things not only beyond his
power, but far beyond the wisdom Of all men.
When those momentous events shall come TO.
pass no man ever knew, or evercan. find out by,
all the wisdom and learning and research of
which a mortal is capable. Suffice it that they
a0iu come to pass as surely as that God cannot
lie, and this is enough for US TO know. Can il
be much less than blasphemy to try to find out
that, which God has said must remain secret
WE published yesterday morning, under our
telegraphic head, an abstract from an an.
nouncement in the New York Tribune, that
Hon. GD Dan Sicklcs had become zone flesh
again with his errlng Theresa. We subioin a
fuller statement of the m0dus operandi By which
this curious laison was brought about. 1t ap.
pears as a special despatch in the Cincinnati
Commercial:
The Hon. Daniel E. Sickles has sent letters
to his mostintimat friends, informing them TINT
he has resumed marital relations with his wife
The letters were written yesterday and today
and5in consequence of the discovery that months
ago he resumed the relations in the most init.
mate form. The story, for which we have ex-
cellent authority, is this: