Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-03-04
THE AGE OF THE WORLD.

eAS Tie DOml lulCal lctCcT0
The Dominical Letters are known to be
right, and to give true results at the pres
ent time. We also know that 400 years
Dominical Letter of ach fftieth year in
the cycle IL the one succeeding in alpha
betical order, that wh ich was the Domic-
ical Letter Of the previous fftieth. For
example,: If the first fftieth year in the
present cycle was 1850, and had b for its
Dominical Letter, then the next fftieth
year, the year 100, would have G for its
Dominical Letter, and SO on through the
whole Cycle. For this reason, it is impos-
slble to start your Cycles at a wrong time
and fetch them out right at the present
tirne unless you start them at least 400
years from the right time, which would
be the commencement of another cycle.
| have challenged the hterati of the whole
world, in my published letters, to start
the cycles at any other time than the day
of Creation, and fetch them out right, un-
less they vary from that time at least 400
years and no one so far as l know, has
yet attempted it, and presume they new
er will
true 10 hew d dine oq tfe fed the
ton? L will tell you; but you must exer-
else some patience, as it cannot be told in
few words. The cycles being all alike,
we can tell jnst as well by the Dominical
Letters what day of the week any day of
any month fell on six tb ousand yeaIs ago,
or will fall on six thous and years hence.
as we can ascertain VIII at letter must be
the Dominica letter VIII en- the 23d day of
September falls on Sund ay in the present
cycle, we know that the same lctter is the
Dominical Letter In any other and all
other cycles, when that ay of that month
falls on Sunday. And th Dominical let
ter of the year IA of the Julian period
being G., and TIL tthat year being the year / i,
A NJ, and the 23d Of September always
falling on Sunday under that letter, if we
commence our cycles at that time they'll
come out right, as at the present time, but
will not, if we start them at any other
time more or less than 400 years from
that time, unless the mum ber Of years can
be divided by 400 without remainder
The reason why commence the cycles
in year when the 23d Of September falls
on Sunday is this The Bible says, "The
evening and the morning were the first
day.; Which | call Sund ay; and the Jews
say the Creation was at the time of the
Autumnal equinox, whic h always falls on
the 23d of September in, the New Style
10 show you my authority for this, / will
read from Prideaux's Connexion, vol |.
p. 147 ION the seventh month, which is
called Tisri, all the people which had re-
turned to their several cities gathered to
gether at Jerusalem, aud there on the first
day of that month, celebrated the feast
of trumpets. This month began about
was formerly the first month of the year,
ahar at ha />ff -
ing up of the vast hosts of the children
of Israel out of land of Egypt; for that
happening in the month Abb, afterward
called Nisan, that month, for this reason,
had the honor gi.en it as henceforth to be
reckoned among the lsrelites for the first
month of the lyear, that is in al, eccle-
siastical matters. Before this time Tisri
was reckoned everywhere to begin the
year, because from thence did commence
Ct WAS thought) the beginning of all
things; it being the general opinion among
the ancients, that the world was FIRST Gre
ated and first be ,an at the time of the Au-
tumnal eduinox. And for this reason the
Jews do still In their era of the world, as
well as In their era of contracts compute
the beginning of the year from the first
of Tisri; and all their bills and bonds,
and all other civil acts and contracts, are
still dated among them according to the
same computation And, therefore al
though their &c clesiastical year began
fiom Nisan and all their festivals were
reckonea according to it, yet their civil
Y ear was still reckoned from Tisri and the
first day of that month was their New
Year day; and for the more solemn eel
ebration it, this feast of trumpcts seems
to have been appointed.
In farther confirmation of the fact that
the first of Tisri was anciently celebrated
as new year day, l will farther read in
the same volume, p 296.
Ezra having completed his edition of
of the law ofGod, and written il out fair
ly and correctly in the Chaldean charac-
er, did this year on the feas, of trumpets
publicly read it to the people at Jerusa-
lem This feast was celebrated on the
first of Tisri, the seventh month of the
Jews ecclesiastical year, and the irst of
their civil year. Their coming out of the
land of Egypt having been in the month
Of Nisan, from that time the beginning of
their year, in all ecclesiastical matters,
was reckoned from the beginning of that
month, (Which happened about the vernal
! equinoxO but in all civil matters, as in