The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-03
How Man is to Disappear from the
Earth,

About 1910 a sect of rehgionists sprang
into existence known as the "Millerites.
They took their name from a distin-
guished Baptist preacher, the Rev. Mr..
Miller, who, from his long and attentive
study of the Scriptures and the common
taries upon them by standard writer's,
deduced the theory that we were APP
preaching the end of all sublupary
things. In other words, he believed
that the earth was in its last stages of
existence, and that it was to be burned
up, the heavens were to be rolled up as
scroll, and everything was to melt i'll
fervent heat. These views were sug-
gested to him mainly by the prophecies
in the Old Testament and the Book of
Revelations in the New. According to
the chronology, as he therein found it,
the catastrophe was to occur in the year
1S43. Although the event did not take
place at the latest period advertised, yet
it was believed by the disciples of the
sect to be only small and trifing error,
and they have ever since believed that if
the last day did not then come we are
not far from it, What the Rev. Miller
considered to be the truths taught by
the chronology of the Bible are now
promulgated by the oracles of astro-
nomical science. For instance, we refer
to Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the great
astronomer and distinguished adherent
of the school of Tyndall, Darwin and
other advanced thinkers of the nine
teenth century. Prof. Proctor maintains
that the earth had beginning that
it will have an end that planets grow !;
that when through the cycle of ages
their fruition is obtained, they and all
that appertains to them disappear from the
planetary horizon. The moon, our nearest
neighbor, he regards as burnt out and
extinguished world. The "man in the
moon" is therefore fiction. 1t is as
well established as anything can be by
astronomical calculation that most of the
fixed stars and planets are uninhabita-
BILE, according to the laws which govern
human life on the earth. This is owing
to the extremes of heat and cold and
light and darkness. But they are all
believed to have once been the abode of
human beings like ourselves. And they
may again, in the changes of the future,
TEEN with animal life. In Prof. Proc
tors lecture In Boston We find the fol-
lowing remarks, which are reported in
the Boston Journal of November 8th:
Pictures were exhibited showing the condi-
ton of the moon as bearing upon the probable
future condition of the earth, and then the
ecturer, continuing, said that we were drawing
near to the time when the earth will be dead.
Every thing has its life and its death. The
earth had its birth, and it must have its death.
The period during which the earth has existed
is nothing compared with the infinite past
and eternity. The time is coming, millions of
years hence, when Jupiter will become the
abode of life. The earth, after it has lost its
life, will be beautiful indeed, but there will be
no one there to behold. by this aud other
things we are taught the lesson that what
appears to be waste is really the lavishness of
nature.
"What is now going on we may consider
pretty near the crest of the wave Of the earth.
Changes must take place. and the earth must
part with it's life. A picture Of the planet
Mars was exhibited, as showing the future con-
dition of the earth and the lecturer suggested
the sinking OF the ocean into the interstices
70 med by the further cooling. 1t is when we
look at the moon that we recognize moro fully
the future condition Of the earth. We see
there planet which has died out. - incin-
natl Enquirer.