The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-17
LITERATURE.
REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

other Prophecies of ReveIations and Daniel
within Ngi,E tpe Final Seven Years; commencing
nanT for the National Restoration OF the
Jews subsequent Extensive Reviyals OF Re.
mglon; the tirst-ruits Ascension OF l44,OOO
Translated Christians; the Latter-day Wars,
Eamines, Pestilences, and Earthquakes
Great Tribulation and Anu-Christian Perse-
eution for three aud a half years-The Slaugh-
ter of the Witnesses The Second Ascension
OF lnnumerable Christians-The Closing Con-
dict at Armageddon-rhe Personal Reign of
& Co C' 1--'O'' p'''''
A New York critic, on whose judgment we
can place some reliance, solemnly assures us
that ''no man can read this work through and
remain sane" So in order to avoid so dire a
catastrophe as idiOcy, we have only read por-
tions of the book, and the portions read JUS
tify the kindly warning of our New York
brother. Looking at the works of st. John and
of Mr.. Baxter, another reviewer asserts that
eve are placed in dilemma from which there
is no escape: either st. John or the Rev. Mr..
Baxter had a screw loose" And we really do
not see that any other alternative can be sub
mitted to the intelligent reader If Mr.. Baxter
writes for intelligent inhabitants of Kirkbrde's,
he has furnished them with literature which
can be read with equal interest at all times.
There is no necessity for lucid intervals.
When the phrenzy is in the head, the work is
as clear as in the calmer moments. AS to any
one not inspired by compOs, it is too
much by far; "such knowledge is too high
for me, l cannot attain unto it," When
the reader first opens the boo k, he sees
sight which makes his soul recoil in terror.
A dozen villanous wood-cuts act as preface.
If he escapes safely the Macedonian ram,
which is in the act of committing suicide over
precipice; the woman and the dragon, the
latter being only imaginable in man who is
addicted to the "rams;" the seals, which con-
sist of various equestrian exercises, the phials
held by female forms executing a light fantastic
pas in the air, the informed beast, with the
dome of the capitol at Washington in the dis
tance and a series of trumpets, strangely re-
semblng walking sticks-if, we say, he escapes
all these and dies in his bed, he is hero
worthy of a crown.
The great aim of the work appears to be an
effort to connect Louis Napoleon and Anti
Christ and to wind up the affairs of the world
in or about the year 1875. Now the reason
the Emperor is Anti Christ is mixed up with
the number 666. This opinion was held by
"forty writers" which we take on Mr.. Bax-
ter's word. We let the author connect Napo-
leon with the - for himself
''The name of Louis Napoleon. in Latin,
Greek. and Hebrew, contains 666, which Is fore
told in Rev. xiii, Is, to be the number of the
Wild Beasts name. Louis in Latin is LudoUtcus,
and L so plus ~ 5 plus d 500 plus plus 8 plus
ii plus 100 plus u plus - 666. Again, the
Greek dative of Napoleon is NapoIeonh, and ~
SO plus plus 50 Plus @ 70 Plus go 80 plus :, !, 3
In this inscriptive form of the dative case that
the Emperor Napoleon,s name is to be written
and foreheads. (Rev. xiii, l6. II; Acts xviii, 49,
A permissible Greek form for LouiS Napoleon
(LOtS Ndpoleon), also gives 666 as the sum OF It's
letters. Furthermore, in Hebrew, the words
Louis Napoleon BuOnGpdrte make up altogether
666. There clearly appears also 10 be q radical
identity between the words Napoleon and
ApoSlyon or ApoIeon in one of its Greek forms
the predicted name Of the last Head OF the Ro
man Empire in Rev. TX, IL, the letter N prehxec
to dpoleon being an abbreviation for MAJ, tn
Greek for UeTtty or Tutyy tnus NdPOGeO" heahi
truly ApoItyOn."
All of which is doubtless very convincing t.
the reader but why the Latin of Louis shoul
be taken instead of the Greek, and why tn
dative case must be selected instead OF tn
nominative, and why all of the name is use
once and only part of it at another time,
rather mysterious. Probably we are not to
let into the secrets of the inter penetrdha, froi
which we are to be excluded.
The reason why the world is to come to a
end in 1875 is also conclusive. From DAME
it seems that the world is to exist 1850 fro
the ''Primary fulflment;" now add 1850
594-8, the date of the Justinian edict %, wi
be 1894, which is the first period. Now fro
this time till the sixth vial begins to dry I
the Euphrates, which for the sake of pc
spicuity we will suppose to mean the Turks
Empire-though we see no good cause /
such supposition--is 80 years, which brin
us down to l824-9. Now, 2300 years from Z
seventh year of Artaxerxes, the Holy La
will commence to be cleared, so tn
it was commenced to be cleared
1844-7. The reason we have not heard Of
is probably because the contractors are 4
hard at work, and have made but little pl
gress. Then suppOsing the AZ months me
toned in Revelation to mean 1860 years,
adding 1860 to the date of the decree
Phocas % in 606-l3, we have 1868, whi
exactly corresponds with $50 years plus 10
A. D. (date of the Reformation in Germany
all to years. So that we may exist un
1877, but probably will not. 1t is not safe
feel sure about it after 1873. From this t
reader will doubtless feel alarmed, but
days Of the ''sterile primetary" are nul