Connecticut western news., 1879-11-05

THE UNITED STATES COMING PERIHE.
 LIONS AND HOW WE SHALL ESCAPE THE
 CATASTROPHE.
 Rev. Joseph Wild, of the Onion Con-
 gregational Church, Brooklyn, believes that the Saxon race are the children of Israel and that the people of the United States represent the tribe of Manasseh.
 He also believes in the dire significance Of the approaching perihelions. He says that in the years 542 and 1865 we had the perihelions of three of the plan cts and these were extraordinary times of distress in the world. "Now," he argues, "from 1880 to 1885 we arc to have four of our principal planets and one Of the minor in perihelion, besides three ot them in conjunction taking in
 Mars we may say four. The conjunc- tlon will be in 1883. The conjunctive planets will be Neptune, Saturn, Jupi- ter and Mars. The perihelions are as follows :-Jupiter in the autumn of 1880,
 Mars at the close of the spring of 1881,
 Neptune in the winter Sof 1881, Uranus in the spring of 1882, and Saturn in the autumn of 1885. The chronological order of prophetic events warrant us to expect and teach us to believe the same things. The coincidence between proph. ecy and astronomy is of divine ap- pointment. These stars help us to know our whereabouts as children of Israel in our prophetic march,"
 Dr. Wild explained why he thought the people of the United States would escape the great evils which threaten the earth. Troubles were coming on the earth, he said. They are to be various, intense and terrible. But what of all that need we fear? Certainly nothing. Our duty is to watch and pray that we shall be accounted worthy to escape all these things. Ou1 forefathers' God wrought deliverance upon deliverance. During the Egyptian darkness all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. As the history of Israel was not answerable to the common law of cause and effect so the career of the Anglo. Saxon race requires more than the brain and heart of poor humanity to account for it. Reasoning on human plane, Britain's place and power are out of all proportion. Accidents fraught with ruin and disaster fra quently occur that are very godsends to England and devllsends to her enemies. As an illus tration of this the preacher narrated the miraculous defeat of the project of Philip H., of Spain, assisted by Pope Sixtus, to conquer England, when she seemed powerless, Ill the year 1888. He also narrated the grand idea and effort of Napoleon Bonaparte to conquer Eng land, and said but for the Divine quality attached to England 1t was impossible to see how the French General failed. In historical instances of preservation like those, the English are so much like Israel of old that the evidence is in favor ot thelr being the tribes. The children of Israel are somewhere, and they were Ill the latter days to appear in just such an isle. The speaker concluded that the English were Gods chosen people, and If so then both they and Americans might expect to receive special protec- tion in the coming days of pestilence, famine, war and other scourges. He did not think this country should go wholly free. The scourge that is specially to atdlct it is to Do chiefly of 8 political na- ture. Americans must be prepared for a federation in David's throne, which was Gods throne, when onco it is es- tabiished i'll Jerusalem. Being the tribe of Manasseh they are to have by Divine appointment place and lot assigned them in the glorious fatherland- tine. He had known many who did not want to be so intimately connected with Providence, for reason that it abated their pride. The theory Of the lost tribes was equal to red flag Haunted in the face of bull, in the eyes of some They did not want to di- vide honors with God. It was passing strange that, with the remarkable his- tory of the Saxon race, there should be a disturbance in the whole land. No man could understand Irish history who | did not recognize the two antagonistic races peopling the Green. Isle, viz, the Philistines and the Danites.
 Under this recognition of Divine in- duence and protection over the United States the speaker could not, if called upon to construct a seal for the nation. have made one moro appropriate than the one it has. Manasseh came out of Egypt, and was familiar with the Pyra. nids; hence, on the reverse side of the seal was properly pyramid, to pro- claim his origin. On the obverse side vas simply the number 13, for Manas- 'eh was the thirteenth tribe.