Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-06-21
EARTH'S END DRAWS NEAR.
Clergymen Who Say So-The Reasons that
They Give for Their Belief
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The Rev. Samuel Sheffield Snow preached
on Sunday afternoon in the Medical College,
at Fourth avenue and Twenty-third street,
about the end of the world, which he said
was not far off, Babylon is on fire." be
explained. ''In 1914 the times of the Cen
tiles were ended the woman on the scarlet
beast is now being worried by the ten horns
of the animal she rides; the war in Europe
means the working out of the prophecy, and
before long the people of God will come forth
from the dust and stand resplendent as the
sun in the presence of the Almighty" In
working up to this point, the speaker asked
incidentally, but emphatically, whether the
people OF God were to be found within the
bale of the Church of Rome, whereupOn an
elderly hearer replied earnestly, ''Some OF
'em air." and walked out in the midst OF vio-
lent reproof by the preacher.
The Rev. John Davenport, who defined
himself as ian evangelist serving under apos-
ties restored to the Church. preached in the
church at Montgomery and Morrison streets,
on "Reason for believing that the time OF our
Lords personal return is very near. One
reason given by him was that, nOtWlthstand-
ing Christ had been born over eighteen cen
turies, the world was still fearfully wicked.
Also that scandal was rife and delighted In;
also, that money was priced more than ever,
and wherever there was trust there was al
most always defalcation. Another sign was
the disobedience of children to parents, who
could not control them as formerly. This,
the speaker said, was owing to the general
| spirit of disObejience abroad, which neither
obeyed nor had faith in teachers nor rulers,
but assumed personal independence. The
sun, moon and stars spoken of in Luke,
| ,,l>: :o1> YnoO
of men who would feel the approach of the
second coming and announce it; and the Lord
had created newspapers and telegraphs to
! facilitate their announcements. The seas and
| waves spoken of in St. Luke as roaring doubt
| less indicated the murmurs of the people,
whose voice was loudly heard, and would, in
the end, control all Governments.
The Rev. Wiley Jones, of Norfolk, Va,
spoke in National Hall, Williamsburg, on
''The Kingdom of God, soon to be Literally
and Vlsibly Established on Earth" Mr..
Jones remarks were extempOraneous, and he
had no definite text, quoting literally from
the Old Testament in the course of his ad.
dress, in which he said: The Kingdom OF
God will be set up on the earth, and will be
! Just as literal and visible as any earthly mon
arches that have already existed. The crisis
will occur when the Euphrates is drying up
that is when the Turkish Empire is being
destroyed. This crisis in indicated in the
thirty eighth chapter of Ezekiel the great
Russian shall march ''Out of MS place in the
| north parts" This is said to occur ''all men
that are on the face of the earth shall shake at
the presence of the Lord" The second verse
of Ezekiel, thirty-eighth, should read, 1.-The
Prince of Rosh, Mescheck and Tubal," the
Rosh being the Russian. He asserted bis be.
| liet that the end of the world is near at hand
| and implored his hearers to seek the throne
of grace before it was too late.