Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-09-05
THE END OF THE WORLD.

We notice that those who believe
in the speedy Second Coming and an
approaching Millennium. are holding
camp-meetings i'll different pats of
the country. 1t is now quarter of
a century since the Rev. Mr.. Miller,
aided immensely by large and unex-
pected comet, created considerable OK
citment and some alarm by predict
ing q final terrestrial conilagration,
the same having been figuratively
forctold by the prophet Daniel and
St. John the Divine. The idea of
the abolition from the solar system
of this great globe is an old one. 1t
was entertained in the earliest days
of Christianity, and frequently revi-
we'd during the Middle Ages. It's
origin, we suppose, is partly relig<
ious, partly intellectual. In the first
place the world is too wicked to wag
much longer, and while it does last
should, by every rule of right reason,
belong to the saints. In the second
place, other heavenly bodies have
come to grief, and why should not
ours? Thirdly, we naturally attach
the idea of end to all materiality, for
it logically follows beinning
We have no wish to throw any dis
credit upon anybody's religious be-
lief, and are ready To admit that
many learned men have had full
faith in mundane destruction. AL
though we are forced ourselves to
go on from day TO day precisely as
if there never would be an end of
publishing, we know in our secret
soul-much, we admit, to our mort
fication-that the morning will come
when no Tribune will be published.
Nor are we singular in our persever-
anee. Believers in an approximate
ing millennium never cease to attend
to the vital economies They SOW in
the seed time; they take and give
notes at six and nine months; they
purchase land, and they make pro-
vision for the heirs of their bodies.
It's next to impossible for any man to
discover himself from his earthly re-
lations; it is only death which. can
unmesh us from the tolls in which we
are struggling. From this point Of
view, the wreck of matter and crush
of worlds is of very little present
interest. 1t has not the Importance
of one individual demise, for that is
certain while the other is only prob
able. So we are obliged to take the
future upon trust. 1t is enough to
understand the aim and reason of
yesterday, and to work well to-day
for worthy objects. They only are
to be commiserated whose world
comes to an end while they are still
living, and who linger here after they
have ceased to be useful, like the i'm
mortal mortals of Swift's horrible
satire-tae wretches who longed to
die, while death was still denied
them.
If it be any comfort to our read
ers, we would remind them Of the
slowness with which most mortal
things decay. We say nothing of
the pyramids; we lay no stress upon
the spiced, and swathed, and skill
fully begummed mummies; we make
no reference to flies in amber; but we
would point to the Democratic party
as a wonderful instance of vivaciQus
persistence. To mark how it fingers
mist be an encouragement to those
who are advancing toward senility, |
and who are still 10th to depart. 1t
stays to give kind of sophistical |
contradiction 20 the notion that all
things must have an end. 1t is as