The Worthington advance., 1878-11-07

to about $4,O24.76. These are merely
''clerical errors," Mr.. Kerr being If the
clerical profession. If it had been any
body else, we should have insisted that
this was a steal. But being the Rever-
end Mr.. Kerr, who was so handsomely
whitewashed by the Presbyterian
church, Mt st. Peter, we must all con-
clude that these stealings were SER
rOrs."
THE EUROPEAN WAR.
A recent London despatch says:
The Russian press is extremely hos
tile to England. The 1Vedenaost says
the great struggle with England, which
has been prepaing for centuries, will
occur in Afghanistan. The Ruski Mir
declares the hour has come when Eng
land will be held responsible for past
deIinquencies.
This, of course, is not al all surpris-
jng to any intelligent reader ofhistory.
The founder of the Russian Empire
left paper mapping out policy which
has been followed by al! his successors.
That policy is expressed in one word,
Aggression. lie said it was the desti-
ny Of the northern nations to overrun
the south, as they did once before when
the barbarians overran and possessed
Europe.
That Russia will press steadily to this
end in spite of all obstacles, we do not
doubt. The signs of the times indicate
that she is ready for a forward move
7nert all along the line into Asia as
well rs into Europe.
Behind all this, however, we descern
n Mighty Hand which moves these
1nonarchs as on a political chess-board.
1t IS a game of centuries with kings
1t'ke people on the eother. We can pre-
'aSct who will win, and our hope IS that
tile great game is .reaehing a culmina-
t6ion.
ARlHN 6MaD0M
The Soience of HEALTH, in recent ar
micha, comments On tire fact that the
l'erihelia of the four great planets, Ju-
piter, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune, is
immlAe,it. That IS, these four great
planets will ,,e at their nearest approach
to the S1n lin Of soon after 1880. This
has iot ,oueNrred before during the
Christian 'era. In the sixth and sew
centavies three of these planets were
cnisarSsypnt in nerih elion
And what of it? DR.. Knapp, who
has examined the question fully, says
that these were the periods Of greatest
atmospheric disturbance and pesti-
lence during tile Christian era, and
that it may be considered settled
matter that such coincidence in the
nearest approach, of these great planets
to the sun, is marked by pestilence and
unusual mortality.
But, it seems, that not only are there
great atmospheric changes, resulting
in increased sickness and death, but
there are also apt to be great political
and religious culminations. Thus all
the prophecies Of the Bible point to the
period around and about 1880 as the
time for tl,e fultillment of the political
and religious predictions, when the
great battle Of Armageddon Is to he
fought. In this war the greater part
Of the human race will be involved
and the old monarcl,ical systems in
state and churcl, will be overthrown
We have thus u coincidence in whicl
both Scripture and Science combine t
point out the period from say 1850 Il
1885 rs u period of probably the great
est war and the greatest changes in th'
natural, the political and the religiou
worlds, which our planet las witness
ed.
As the Sciei7ce of Health says, Wv
do not write to alarm any one, but t.
give the facts and probabilities. Tha
great conflict must come before til
world can be rid Of the l'ernicious pc
itical and religious systems which hav
been fastened upon the race by king
and priests, no intelligent student q
history and Scripture prophecy ca
doubt
As We lave said several times before
we should consider it a privilege to liv
through this time Of great overturnin
and to see tie people of the world free
from kingly and priestly domination
1t may be too much TO expect within Il,
mkt decade, but all the signs in Il,
81, natural and the political and religion
b h'avens. teen to indicate that u ,erio
IT great change and elimination is a
hand. 4.ss, f..
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