The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-09
THE SECOND ADVENT.

The End Of the World Probable mt Any Mo-
Hent-Meeting Of the Happy Lambs who
Have ''sure Thins' ON Being Saved.
A BAKERS dozen OF motley individuals assembled
yesterday afternoon at No. 405 Grand street inter-
change their Ideas the speedy dissolution OF the
earth and to hear the socaled Elder Burns read OF
the end Of the age from st. Peter and OH solar
mutabillty.
On small platform al the upper end Of the room
under sign board bearing the name Neptune"
was short man with bushy gray whiskers around
his jaws and gray hair scattered across his head.
lie wore an air of penetrating philosophy and o
pair Of gold spectaces. The latter he kept
resting alternately on his forehead and on the
bridge Of his nose. This individual was Elder
Burns. On the benches at the left were:-A man
who looked somewhat ike an animated corpse. with
forehead which, continued upward about two
inches, would form an soceles triangle; another man
with busby gray hair. a linen coat and hump on
jaws. sandy whiskers and blonde hair well soaped
down; a. thin young female IN purple and white
a. wa y er u a h
ing choruses with which the performances were
varied; then there was what looked to be married
long nose, while the man, an exquisite Cd
singer, was partially bald, and looked as II
company as a believer. Then there were couple
OF young men, or half grown boys who made tubes
Of long cards and gazed az the elder as If through
telescopes; woman with rather masculine cut Of
countenance ana black fan, which she kept In mo.
tlon either tanning herself or pOkiDg a young man,
who sat near her and would 40 to sleep, and stay
asleep until poke from the fan would rouse him.
On the other side was short man. with square
head, covered with bushy gray hair, thick body,
woman, with a dat small forehead, a nose that
looked as II made for a portion OF headline
bonnet winch seemed as Il sa been
genuine coal scuttle, but had been chopped or at
the front and at the cape, until it left her little
were few Others OF no particular class, who came
10 look on, or who might possibly have been be-
Elder Burns read the third chapter OF the Second
Epistle Of St. Peter. After he had squlrmed through
the epistle he went on In rambling, disconnected
discourse 70 assure Qs hearers that they might ex-
psSi ss~ns ne sss i 9Tsa ieasa
70 the things which should immediately prscels
When The second SGs ss ols %cu s' Led
There was sort OF interregnuIn or intermediate
time between the fuflment OF the prophecies and
tine destruction OF the EARTH and are in that time
now. The elder then went on TO state that he had
paper which was sent him by friend IN England.
TO let them seeD and not q religious paper.n
From this he read an article on some solar
years ago. This was the article on ''solar
Mutability,n but from his style Of reading 1t
very little could be understood: rhe elder went on
any spirits going up TO heaven. lie read OF man
gong up 10 heaven In q chariot, and he read Of
another ascending into heaven but they went there
bodily. He thought we heard q great deal too much
about SPIRITS ne heard Of spirits that could eat and
al that sort or thing. After struggling through an
h0ur ana quarter, during which time the sacre-
glous telescope makers had gone TO Sleep and turee
or Tour others OF the audience had followed their
example, the elder closed by praying that the day
OF the second advent may come quickly. The
little man with the bushy head aud greasy
coat announced that they wanted a little more
money TO pay the rent this month, whereupon the
animated corpse made bee line for one corner OF
the platform, and thence again on q bee line to-
ward the seats, and moving as II he were atir au-
tomaton presented tin plate under the nose OF
eacn person In the r0om and obtained, perhaps,
seventeen cents. On invitation OF the aiOrenen-
TONED little man, one Of the brethren got p to say
something" An idea had struck him, not that IL
was new, but ne had often used 10 IN argument and
had but just learned that Peter used the same idea
He never knew before that he and Peter>bad ex.
pressed the same opinion on that point lie said
Here you see ne says go on down, down to the
where ne says-yes, down, right along down here at
the tenth verse dnQ)-n-n--n--I-n-n--"B
the day Of the Lord VIII come az thief In then
n-hesvsns pass away. great noise-n-n-I-
and 80 on--melt, fervent heat, earth-n-n-n-snal
be burned up The speaking friends had asked
him where he and his people would be when the
burning time came Why that was the easiest tn,ng
In th3 world to answer Christ was agoln' TO come
down and take them up with him until the burning
was passed away. Paul had said there would be a
new earth, but he knew better, and Adam Baker
had said that that meant renewed earth. The
little woman with the cnopped-on coal scnttc then
got up ana raitled Qa rgemar9Is sho yesg