Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-04-15
DAY OF JUDGEMENT.
WILL IT OCCUR DURING TIE
CURRENT YEAR 1?
Startling Revelations from the Pyra-
nids of Egypt-The Earth's Final
Throes.
From the New York Mercury

1hr0es.
From the New York Mercury
The heavens above, the earth beneath,
and the waters under the earth and the
atmosphere which envelopes our planet
have recently exhibited such protentious
phenomena as to fill the minds of all
Christendom with wonder and appre-
hension. Men of profound research, like
NJ. Victor Heralt, De la Rue, Caring
ton, and others, who have struggled as
siduously to wiring the secret OF our
worlds destiny from Nature, are no Ion
ger treated as mere dis;empered vision
aries. Those cosmical changes that the
telescope and the spectrum reveal in the
heavens and the terrible meteoroligal
demonstrations that dotted our coast
line with ship wrecks, lead us, by SOL
emn steps, back into the Infinite. There
is not an astronomer or scientist worth
the name living to-day but accepts the
statement that "both the earth and its
inhabitants have passed the prime of
their development" as a selfevident
fact They predicate this condition as
respects the earth just as confidently rs
we predict a man of sixty is past his
physical prime.
The subject of the death of the earth
may not be pleasant one; but some of
the foremost minds of the age have said
death may occur to the earth at any
moment, just as to the individual who
has entered upon second childishness
and mere oblivion" 1t may be by slow
process of natural decay, or it may be
sudden. The fact of the globe having
entered into its death period, it will be
remembered, has nothing whatever to do
with the intellectual development of
man. The earthquake, the volcano, the
thunderbolt, and the hurricane spread
havoc aud destruction irrespective of
mans wishes or mans prayers, and the
globes final convulsion, we are assured,
will oyertakc us 'as a thief in the night
'Then we which are alive, says ST.
Paul First Thessa, onians, chap iv,v II
land remain shall be caught up togeth-
er with them in The clouds TO meet the
Lord in tie air. This does not seem
much like a peaceful millennium! In
the same belief Bishop Heber writes;
"The Lord shall come The earth shall
quake,
The mountains to their center shake;
And withering from the vault of night,
The stars Shall pale their feeble light"
RESPECTING TIE DATE
of the final convulslon that will, in the
twinkling of an eye, wind up the human
life of our planet, some extraordinary
evidence has been discovered on the
banks Of the Nily, in the ancient land
of the Pharohs. The
PYRAMIDS OF EGYrT
have Justly been regarded among the
wonders Of the world Scholars and sa =
wants OF all countries have endeavored
to explain their significance, but they
have proved almost as inscrutable mys
terry as their ne:ghbor the Sphynx. Mr..
Tile, the celebrated English architect,
measured the Great Pyramid near Gizeh
with methodical accuracy quarter OF
century since. ats dimensions were
764 feet at the base and 4S0 feet in per-
perdicular height, covering over thlr
teen acres OF ground 1t consumed SO,
02S, 000 cubic feet ofstone The joints
of the large casing blocks of granite
were SO fine as to be scarcely preceptible,
not thicker than paper" On one side
of it there was an opening through
which the Pole star of that period is
supposed to have beer observed, and
Prot. Smith, of Cambridge, England,
has expressed his belief that this stupen-
dious pile of mathematically accurate
masonry was constructed for the pur-
pose of recording the knowledge Of
science divinely impaired to mai. Prof
Tyndall has often aud eloquently com
mented on the service that the imaglna-
ton has rendered to science. There was
never more forcible illustration of this
service than in this theory of Prof
Smith, Prof JardsIey, of Moscow. six
mouths since, commenced an investiga
ton of the geometric lines, groups OF
living figures and hieroglyhics with
which the iuteriorofs thism mural monu-
ment is embelisked. The first discoy-
cry which awaited Prof Jardsley was
interesting, but it did not seem preg-
nant at all with promise. He ascertain
ed that certain, characters, when inter
preted by key which he seems almost
accidentally to have discovered, repre-
resented a geemetric series of numbers
as follows: s5 sara 5q sai .fa ID"
81 o, 3, 6; 12, "a, 4s, 90, 1872. y
The professor was puzzled to con-
lecture why such simple record should
be carved on the stone iI enduring char,
acters. Satisfied that some extraordina-
ry significance was attached to the SER
les OF numbers, he examined their sur
roundings with microscopic minutcness