Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-04-09

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The preacher, after closing, said he Was
open to any questions the audience might
see fit to ask. He was ''in the field'' with
! out pay to benefit his. fellow men, and it
was duty and pleasure to enlighten them.
A citizen near the doOr-Mr. Hollar,
what day have you fixed for the coming of
the millennium?
Mr. Hollar-Havn't told you the day?
You just take the 1900 years and calculate
it backward and forward, and you can It
miss it. You see I like to give my congre-
cations little work at it themselves.
Don't you see?
Citizen-No, don't see. What I want
to know is the Gay.
Another citizen-You see Mr.. Thurman
appointed day once, and it didn't come.
Mr.. Hoilar-Brother Thurman is lin
Boston now. Ill explain how that was.
Our calculations were wrong. We calcu-
lated for 1858, and we did it by the aid OF
the heather historian, Gibbon, an idol
worshiper, and we got it wrong. But we
believe we have it right now. I have my
chart at home, which would show you how
it comes out.
Citizen-Who made the chart?
Mr.. Hollar-Why, Brother Thurman, of
course. can get it here if you want to
hear me again this week.
Anxious voice-Can't you tell us the
day.
Mr.. Hollar-Yes, we believe the millen-
ium will come
THE NINETEENTH DAY OF THIS APRIL.
This seemed to satisfy the crowd, who
commenced pulling out their watches and
saying it was ''getting late''-some desir-
ing to get home and fix up their affairs
before the 10Th, and others wishing to get
nap before the dreaded horn should blow
The meeting then adjourned, the speaker
announcing his intention to address them
again this Friday night at the same place.
No man can hear that the world is about
coming to an end without feeling a rea-
sonable anxiety as to what is to become of
him. and as Mr.. Hollar seemed to have the
inside track, we thought we would Waylay
him down stairs, and get in q word for
ourselves. He was very cordial and polite,
and we felt encouraged. We said:
''Mr. Hollar, did [ understand you to
say that the wicked would have to go
through some tribulation before they
could join in the general happiness?"
stThat is what said"
swell, amt that just little rough on
tle-the sinners"
young man. said Mr.. Hollar, looking
hard at us, Il hope you are not one of
them.''
1t was dreadful. To be sinner any
time is bad enough, but to be one when
the end of the world is only thirteen days
off is enough to upset any man.
THE THURMANITE AsCENsIONIsTs.
The people who believe in the approach
ing millennium are numerous in this cOun-
ty and Rockingham. They number pro-
entious. useful people-just the sort of
people that one would think it would be
hard to plant new religious belief among.
The first day fixed by them for the ascen-
sion was in 1868, and they perpetrated
good many absurdities then, some of them
stopping work and going to close up their
business affairs. They bought white robes
for the ascension. Of course, when the
day passed, they were subjected to much
ridicule, but their leader, Thurman, sent
around a comforting circular addressed to
s.our afflicted and distressed b. ethren,' in
which he took all the blame On his own
shoulders, s. ying that his calculations had
been wrong and he had missed it, but the
ascension would come off on the 23d of the
following October. Unluckily on that day
the millennium did not arrive, and the
brethren have remained distressed and
afflicted since that day, until the 18th of
April loomed up. The preacher we have
been writing about, Mr.. nollar. lives not
far from Mt. Sidney, and is spoken OF 10y
his neighbors as {, man of high integrity,
and in all matters a useful citizen, who is
now rom home as a missionary in the
cause.