The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-06-11
From the Mobile Evening News.
ARMAGEDD0N.

I In ls54-or six years before the com.
meGcement Of the present extraordinary
revolution-ihere was published by ;. ID.
Baldwin, A. NJ. President Of Soule Female
C0llese, very remarkable ynlumr, bearing
the above title. Tue book was sulemnly de.
seribed by is author, man OF unquestIun-
ably profound research In tie department d
sacred letter ta which il is ,leyotea-as here
suit OF twenty years o! nnceasiug Labor, reiiec-
ton and PRAYER. The object was to fix The
Chem United States as the scene Of that ter
rife conflict. forrshadowed in tie prophetic
writings-more especially those Of Ezekiel,
Daniel ard John, under the name the Of wine
press battle or Arma.eddOn. Tie means
whereby this object was to be attained con.
sisted If 4 new discovery, which the writer
claimed 20 have made respecting the mode
OF interpreting tie peculiar Designations u
time. employed in thnse parts I'll Scripture
such 81 DAYS, weeks, years, times, half
times, &c..-and whose Specification no pre-
yiuus inquirer Lad ever been able 10 ascer-
tain with ans reasonable approximation "
absolute precision. Strange 81 il Vi. =
pear, both when collated with the n1S5sf
and industry Of prior investigators aud the
time consumed bY Mr.. Baldwin himself in
making tile proposed discovery, tits new
process Of exposition was exceedingly sia-
pie; and was embraced in the superficial
idea Of fixing definitely, by careful exami-
nation-of the seripturas context, the mean
ing Of one Of Tie mystical terms used. and
getting in this way, at the precise ma,he-
matieai value Of an The Others. This Fl
claims to have succeeded III dong. by such
certain rendering Of tie words :. seventy
weeks" which enabled him at once, Ia mea-
sure the remaining sYmbolical dates. The
proof was, III the rigid historical gulfiiIment
IF the events prsdicted--io the very day
in the past, aud BY tie Necessary deduction
in the future. Having thus demonstrated
for Sir. BALDWIN elaims 10 les The accuracy
Of his original key u tie propaeticals, he
proceeded @ apply il u the great solution
Of tie great battle 81 Armageddnn, and de.
ternsnrd, first, that L wa, III take place BEL
tween 1862 and ls5G; secondly. that the
conbAtabts vert u ~. tie. United States
on the one lland. anl 10 invading de.po,.e
power, Russia IS be then supposed 81 The
other; thirdly, Tat The scene n tbs can.
fllct was 81 BE- > gfeat plain u ,lIey. as lie
term interpreted -fndicaipd--Ar mageddul.
or plain oi E-lfelnn, or valley II Jrlr.d-
the famous battle ground 81 fbe Hos Laud,
(Which be naturally l1ta.el iH iae III ssl-.ip.
pi Valley; lulrtIly, thet las battic Il 5lld
rage with uupfcc lgated violence. aal Ia,t-
Is, that lh' invading arsny would be ON
pletely defeated and DESTROYED.
NDa, WiiApIt 'enturing Ill opinion fiji
which We have neither The necessary incli
nation nor ability, upon tlig merits III vi.
BALDWIN discovery, considered IN is scrip.
tural rclatiuns, Il cannot b. denied, that lhe
bare fact Ol such an Interpretation 1T prnpb.
cry, as is above set forth, having been sol
emily published, will lull belief in IL sefi-
II, BIZ an earnest aud intelligent inquirer,
SIX years before tie commencement of tie
war, i, when connected with the
history Of the latter, up 10 The present time,
and the tremendous event now impending II
Corintb, eminently calculated 10 pique our
IL not 70 stimulate our faith.
But the most remarkable thing about the
interpreted prOphecy-remarklble because
i shows how utterly improbable the exist.
ng state Oi things was 70 the interpreter
seven years ago--is the mistake into which
le fell IN ascertaining the combatants. That
le should have supposed the invading pow.
9 10 be Russia. and the party invaded the
United States, is, indeed, not very strange,
Issumlng tie text u De equiyocal 10 it, n. I
LEGATIONS but that be should have done 50,
ecording 20 biz own showing citations
4 bis own book, in spite 81 the clear liter.
] description Of The parties contained there.
D, is singular, indeed. We close the brief
nalysis Of topic which has Of late excited
considerable quiet interest, by eollaling 4
~ Of the striking passages just alluded to,
18th the remark that Mr.. Baldwin bad the
atriotic daring TO lecture on this subject 10
! audience Of Lincoln soldiers al Nash.
lie, recently, correcting his honest mis-
'prehension, and giving 70 the passages