Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-05-20
DAY OF JUDGMENT.
VIII it Occur During the Current
Yearg
Startling Revelations from the Pyra.
mids Of Egypt-The Earth's
Final ThrOes.
From the New York Mercury.

The heavens above, the earth be.
meath. and the waters under the earth
and the atmosphere which envelopes
our planet have recently exhibited
such portentious phenomena as to fill
the minds of all Christendom with
wonder and apprehension. Men OF
profound research, like NJ. Victor
Heralt, De laRue, Darlington, and
others, who have struggled assiduous-
ly to wiring the secret of our world s
destiny from Nature, are no longer
treated as mere distempered vision
aries. Those cosmical changes that
the telescope and the spectrum reveal
in the heavens and the terrible
meteorological demonstrations that
dotted our coastline with ship wrecks,
lead US. by solemn 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 devel-
opment," as a self-evident fact. They
predicate this condition as respects the
earth just as confidently as we predict
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, lust as to the indiyid7 :
ual who has entered upon second
childishness and mere oblivion" 1t
may be by slow process of natural de-
cay, 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 intel
Iectual development of man. The
earthquake, the volcano, the thunder
bolt, and the hurricane spread havoc
and destruction irrespective of man s
wishes or man sprayers, and the globe 8
final onvulsion, we are assured, will
overtak ke us as a thief in the night.
"TheI we which are alive" says ST.
PaulFirst Thessalonians, chap. iv, v.
IL and remain shall be caught up to-
getler with them in the clouds to meet
the Lord in the all" This does not
SEEM much like peaceful millennium
II the same belief Bishop Heber
writes:
"The Lord shall come! The earth shall
quake,
The mountains to their center shake;
And whitening from the vault of night,
The stars shall pale their feeble light"
RESPECTING THE DATE
of the final convulsion that will, in
the tWinkling of an eye, wind up the
human life of our planet, some extra
ordinary evidence has been discovered
on the banks of the Nile, in the an
cient land of the Pharaohs. The
PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT
have justly been regarded among the
wonders of the world. Scholars and
savants of all countries have endeav-
ored to explain their significance, but
they have proved almost as inscruta-
BILE a mystery as their neighbor the
Sphynx. Mr.. Tite, the celebrated
English architect, measured the Great
Pyra mid near Gizeh with methodical
accuracy quarter of century since.
Its dimensions were 764 feet at the
base and 490 feet in perpendicular
height, covering oyer thirteen acres of
ground. 1t consumed SO, ,028,000 cubic
feet of stone. The joints of the large
casing blocks of granite were so fine
as to be scarcely perceptible, not thick
er than paper" On one side of it
there was an opening through which
the Pole star of that period is supposed
to have been observed, and Prof;
Smith, of Cambridge, England, has
expressed his belief that this stupen-
dous pile of mathematically accurate
masonry was constructed for the pur-
pose of recording the knowledge of
science divinely impaired to man.
Prof. Tyndall has often and eloquent
ly commented on the service that the
Imagination has rendered to science.
There was never more forcible illus
tratlon of this service than in this
theory of Prot. Smith. Prof. Jards-
ey, of Moscow, six months since, com
nenced an investigation of the geome-
5ric lines, groups of living figures and
nieroglyphics with which the interior
IF this moral monument is embellish-
I'd. The first discovery which awaited
Prof. Jardsley was interesting, but it
did not seem pregnant at all with
promise. He ascertained that certain
characters, when interpreted by key
which he seems almost accidentally to
nave discovered, represented geome-
jric series of numbers as follows:
0, 3,6, II, q, 48, SO, 1872.
The professor was puzzled to con-
jscture why such a simple record
should be carved in the stone in en-
curing characters. Satisfied that some
extraordinary significance was attach
ed to the series of numbers, he exam
med their surroundings with micro
scopis minuteness. Underneath each
number there was a uniform mark
whichan eminent cuneiform scholar
pronounced to be the symbol used By
the ancient Persians and Babylonians
for the numeral 4. Yet, with this
neutrality-suspicious., the geometrical
series seemed devoid of significance
Fortunately, however, the facts were
brought to the notice of Prof. Lever
rier. the celebrated French astrono.
mer, who after most cursory inspec-
ton. discovered the clew. Add the
4 to each of the numbers in the series,
said he and we have series denot.
ing the respective distances of the
planets of our solar system from the
sun: