Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-12-28
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THE AGE OF THEsN0RLD.
Since the Creation or Adam.

20 Haze the 5000 gears run OUT in 1856 -
"a. In this, last issue of an eventful wear
q we may appropriately discuss this ques.
ton of tile times. 7 ''"''it ',sa'.-i'.t .
~. Tn all ages it has been the! opinion Ct
many that at the end Of 5000 years from
the ceginningof our race, some great
and wonderful change Would take place
a in the history or state, OF our world.
Some have expected that TO be the '.end
OF the aMafi1 spoken of@in Scripture
while others have expected il to mark
some new era or dispcnsation i'm the
progress Of the human race. 1t isupon
this basis lin partl shat tire idea of 1866
us the greatepoch or time of the end
, has been widely spread abroad, ever
since the present century came in and
indeed long before; whiealmost every
body has expected some great d.aoste-
ntent at some time Before TIL century is
Ifany enc will open SCOTS Commen-
-tary on. The Bible, (the standard orsho-
dox work written in 1850 at Daniel
VII .2}-2I, le will find the following
passage: "ProbaIly at the end of 1860
Years from A. ID. COG, l. e., at At.
1855, the glorious events predicted VI ill
begin to receive remarkable accom-
plishment." :" This is indeed the al :
straetof MIR. Faberis copious argument. :"
ut Il 4 ~.
1861 years, so often spoken of, began
A. ID. 601, they must end AID. 1850
The main points in this ar.
cfi,nent seems unqucstionab,c = =
No doubt the end OF the
days or years 10 not very distant. u See
the same given ut Rev. XII: l, 9, & XII:
l3Tl!, dc. Osiander and Flacias, pu-
pilslof Luther soon after the Rcforma.
tion, held'to this view Of 1865. 20 did
Robert Fltmmihg, about $50 years ago.
David Simpson of tie last century
taught the SAME and tho learned FabeI
in 1915 gave full exposition OF a. ID.
1865 as he time of the end. Dir. Cum
mingof London, and otherdis,inguished
men ha@eiong been preaching this view;
Chrytixus, Parens, Winston, Cogswcll,
Bryant, Elliott, Jenkin, Berg, ana MANY
more. Ono great argument has been,
that the G0J0years OF mans history win
then run out y... ## .." #H t1Hr
Is it SO? The year which is now
about to end being. thus invested
b..
with q peculiar Interest, we have taken
special pains to.invcstigate this subice.
mad will give briefly tl,e results of our
research us to the age of the world
And this Shall be ournew years present
to our readers, for 1851. sn .u. .. ...E
Our Hebrew Bible, according to tho
learned investigation of Archbishop
Usher, Dmn Pridesux, and Others,
makes the Christian Era begin 4JOl
years after the Creation Sc Adam /; md
this requires the year 1896 A. ID. to
make up the GOD. Sach is the 4" Nul-
gar Chronology" SO called. Bat al!
recent research shows, that i'm this val.
gar reckoning there is an error of 10,
years, the Bible really making ,5S(
years from the Exodus 10 the Temple, a
gwen IN Acts (xiII: 49, instead q
the 4o0 tseea By usher, through &
wrong Interpretation OF | Kings VI: l.
trhis latter include, only the reigus
md omits the intterregnam The Ger.
tainty of this as right correction. VIZ
could easily show had we room and al
the latest and best critics coneede III,
fact. Thus Hales and Clinton OF Ok
ford, Bowen and Elliott, Seiss in hi.
Last Times" the author ofthe Tim,
OF the end" Browne, ana Coleman
Shimeall, Tynes, &c, ali agree in Thu
view. Moreover, we have elsewhere CON
clusively shown An error of one wear il
the assignment Of Jerusaleln's dsstruo
ton to. 3. c. ESS, instead OF its corrcc
6S7. These two corrections make the
time before A. d. to be 4I08 years [iu
stead of the 430i usually assigned j anc
taking this amount from Go0O, we fine
that the six miilanisds will be out lac
cording to our Ecbrew Bible) in III,
year a. D. 1897. This is the year SC
by Lydiat. ...ar -.
different authors profess to fad othe
errors, which reduce the ending point [,
still earlier year, IA follows TIL,
acknowledged interval OF II years from
the Revolt to the Dispersion OF the Tel
Tribes, las, recorded in Kings ant
Chronicles 10 in the work entitled til,
"Time Of the end' without any dis
tinct rcasonI increased /. years to %
making 4i2l (instead of 4l93) befoa
A. ID. and bringing the end dawn t.
a y. 1850 iilstead of 1897. Hales o
oxford has this Same 4l2J before 4. .
Instead of tile 25i years OF tlie TIE,
Tribes, Bowen and Elliott increase IL t,
go hhe apra:cnt ian,otIns obtained i.
N .sH ayafr 80 ids 'its. .G. ...'..