The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-03-26
An Impending Millennium.

An Impending Millennium.
Advent Of the Apostle OF Truth, VINO Is to
RevOlEtfonfse the EVorld-Ths Atlantic
Ocean 60 be Transfor1ned into Land
of MIX and Honey-No More Sin nor
sOrrOw-A state Of Beatitude to Prevail
Over all the World.
From the Daily Graphic
The fall of 1873 has been made mem
orable by a financial panic which
swept over the country like a whirl-
wind and left many poverty-stricken
tracks in its wake. The winter of
1854 will be long remembered for
its religious revivals, the Episcopal
secession, and the temperance crusade
which in their turn, have swept, or
are sweeping, the continent and now
the spirng of 1874 is to be made mem
orable by the advent upon this sinful
world, and in the heart of this wicked
metropolis, of no less a parsonage
than one &C. SWarthoHt, a new apos-
tie of new gospel, the exponent of a
bran new dispensation, and the pos
sessor of a whole stock of revelations
i which are predestined to upset all the
existing aud old fashioned notions of
things religious, and establish mill
lennium throughout all the world in
a month or six weeks from date. 1t
is well known that great many hon.
| est people, Including the Millefites,
the Second Adventisis, and others,
/ have been vexipg their minds for
many years with Intricate chronolog-
ical calculations to determine the date
i OF the coming millennium, but while
these good people have been so indus
triously occupied with their. mathe-
matics and their Apocalypse, the fact
is, as we are assured by the SWsrth-
\ onllans, that the millennium has al
1 ready come 10 town, and is now COM
| fortably domiciled in room No. 134.
kfth floor, at the st. James Hotel.
The AdYentists and the Millerites
have been all the time looking up
| towards the heavens, and expecting
the millennium to come with mighty
rush of chariots and with throes and
| conVulsions of nature, but they have
not thought of the Morris aud Essex
Railroad, and accordingly
THE MILLENNIAL MESSENGER
has arrived from his late home in
Morristown N. j., with q pitiful ab-
sence of ceremonial, and is now lodg-
ing in the above mentioned room and
taking his modest dinners la carte
at the restaurant of that fashionable
but unfortunate hosiery very much
like any common mortal. Mr.. SWarth-
out then-if it be not sacriligiOus to
prefix the Mr.. to his name-is a Jer-
seyman, and this may lead some scep-
teal person 10 ask, "Can there be any
good thing come out of New Jersey ?"
But this sceptical person should re-
member that somewhat similar ques-
ton was once prOpounded by one
Nathaniel to one Philip, and If he
would know how easily Nathaniel
was converted after all he has only to
refer to his Bible. Mr.. Swarthout
does not claim any divine origin for
himself; and he says he is panied to
think that some of his followers
should regard him as a second Savior.
What he does claim is that the Spirit |
of Truth, the germ of which is press
eat in the souls of all men, has SO ex-
panded and developed in his radiant |
spiritual nature that he-is- now the I
embodyment of Truth, or Truth itself |
Swarthout and Truthare synonymous |
and convertible terms; Swarthout is |
Truth and Truth is Swarthout, SO that |
it the query of Pontius Plate "What |
IS Truth Z" were repeated, it could be |
answered in one word, "Swarthout."
THE NEW DOCTRINE OF TRUTH.
The exact belief of the Swarthout-
ians regarding the nature and attri-
butes of their revered leader is some
what difficult to learn. They agree in
a certain way with the Second Ad-
ventists IN believing that the six days
which were occupied in the creation
were typical of six thousand
years. during which there was to be
all sorts of trouble, hard times, death
and taxes among the children of men,
and that the seventh day, the day of
rest, was typical of Thousand years
of millennium. There is some little
difference as to dates between the two
sects, the AdYentists believing that
the millennium was to begin some
time in 1873 instead of in March, 1874
-bat-ef course this is SO much the
worse for rtheAdventists, The SWarth-
outians, as has been mentioned, have
their millennium on hand, while the
AdVentists having been disappointed
of their 1873 beatitude, are of course,
quite thrown out of their reckoning,
and may after ali have to come into
the Swarthoutian fold to find their
lions and lambs lying down together,
!
The outward manifestations of the
Swarthoutian millennium may now
be expected almost any fine morning.
The most striking of these is to be a
complete change in the physical fea-
lures of the country. 1t is all going
to be made level, so that there need
be no more tunnelling of the Alps or
even of the Hoosae Mountain. HEv-
cry valley shall be exalted, and every
mountain and hill shall be made low,
and the crooked places shall be made
straight and the rough places plain"
Mr.. Swarthout believes that there is
land of this kind lying undiscovered
somewhere on this planet which is
about to turn up and to furnish the
millennial home of all the nations of
the earth.
THE HAPPY HUNTING-GRoUNDs.
He thinks it win eventually be To-
Gated in the place now occupied by
the Atlantic Ocean, and that 4''theEe
will be no more sea" but he is a little
undecided at present whether this
beatific land is now located at the GEN.
tes of the earth or at the North Pole.
He rather inclines, however, to the
North Pole theory, "because." /" he says
YOU DOC ehS "AdtCAS olO SObtAuS
warmer and warmer. This winter
you know, has been comparatively
balmy, and ii would only be necessa-
ry to tip the globe little farther over
towards the sun to make the North
Pole quite comfortable" The Swarth- I
outians believe in Supreme Power,
but believe that it finds its highest {
in humanity, and, as they
do not care much for titles, they con-
slider that as good name as any of
this power Is the 'tGrand Reservoir of
Electricity" Next to this Power, aud
mankind, they have faith in the sun as
the source of light. life, heat, power,
is the most important agency in the
government of the world. Nor is the
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