The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-02-20
DISgAELE AS A SEER.
&c Predicts the Sudden End of Ali
Things.
ArmsgeddOn at Hand.
Woes and Suffarings in All Quar-
tiers Of the Earth.
Cold Comfort for G8ntiles.


nineteenth century, to which we
have now arrived, be asked by amy
man of the world moving in So
ciety and looking day by day over
the columns of the leading news
papers, as st. Peter says some of the
'scoffers of the last days would ask:
Where is the promise of the Time
Of the End; for since the fathers fell
asleep, all things continue us they
were from the beginning OF the
|creationY All things from the be-
ginning of the creation have not and
DO not continue as they were. The
current half Of the present century
alone-to go no further back-has
transformed the face of the globe
we inhabit. Nor is the march OF
events yet come TO a halt. Develop
mentS of the most diverse and start
ing kind are just now succeeding
one another with rapidity very
nearly equal to that with which the
scenes are shifted in a moving pam
Drama. The momentum of the
moving mass, so the philosophers
say, is in proportion to its distance
from the attracting body: hence re-
suits the constantly accelerating
speed of falling body the nearer 1t
approaches to the surface of the
earth. The same law would appear
to obtain in the moral, social and
religious world; and so the speed
with which successive events follow
close upon each other seems rapidly
10 augment the nearer we come to
the time of the end" The foregoing
paragraph forms the introduction
OF an extraordinary pamphlet, at
present circulating, SemI-priVatelyin
certain London circles, a copy of
which reached this office few DAYS
since, accompanied by a private
note which lntimated that there
were people who believed that the
brochure was either inspired by or
the actual production of
LORD BEACoNsFIELD.
His lOrdship has figured in so
many roles that the suggestion pro-
vOked an involuntary smile and the
inquiry, as Benjamin also among
the prophets ?" BeacOnsfield's new
political novel has been received
since. Strange to say, even the cur
sorry examination that the writer
had time to give it easily discovered
the fact that a bloOd-relationship,
subsequently to be indicated, exists
between
"ENDYMION"
And the pamphlet under notice. For
this reason, apart from the thrilling
of the pamphlet itSelfviewed
in the light of mOmentOus revelation
of the things that await us in the
near future-Our readers will doubt
less be anxious to be informed con-
corning the very latest developments
in that somewhat obscure mine of
eXegetical vaticination.
"THE TINE OF THE END"
What is the meaning of this ex-
preston at present so frequently in
mems mOuths?" the writer begins
by inquiTing. 1T does not mean.
as some, judging from insufficient
data and arriving too hastily at a
conclusion, have imagined, the END
of the world but what the original
Greek expresses us the COM
pletiOn'-the folding together
the 'winding-up of the age or dis
penSatiOn, in which we are living.
That time of which, in the DAYS of
his flesh, the disciples asked the
Savior: Tell us. when shall these
things be? and what shall be the
sign of thy coming, and of the end ?
hot of the world us it is unfOr-
tunately rendered in our English
version, but-'of the age?' That
time for which the
POURING OUT OF THE SIXTH VIAL
and the drying up of the River
Euphrates' may be taken as the
signs, is the preparation; that time,
when Judah restored, and dwelling
in their own land, the attack upon
them by great cOnfederacy of ma
lions predicted by the Prophet
Zachariah, the partial success of the
assailants and then the Intervention
Of Jehovah, the coming of the Son
of Man, with the discontinue of the
enemy. This winding up or fold
ing together and therefore the
cloSe-'the end of this age in which
we are living is unquestionably
with the signs of the times near at
hand.
WE ARE CLOSE UPON THE DAWN.
Nobody can doubt the signifca-
lions. Isaiah says: Go through the
gates; prepare We the way of the
people; cast up the highways:
gather out the stones; lift up the
standard for the people. They shall
come with speed swiftly-their
wheels like a whirlWind.' Daniel
adds: Shut up the words and seal
the book; many shall run to and
fro, and knowledge shall be in
creased No prophecy" eloquently
remarks the writer, could be more
literally fulfilled. Railway en-
bankments are cast up in every di-
rectlon; an iron girdle of RAILWAYS
binds the earth; on the iron wheels
of the railway car, travelling in many
cases at the rate of more than
mile a minute, countless millions of
rush with speed swiftly.
their wheels like a whirlwind:'
while millions more pass to and
fro by means of steam vessels
across the worlds ocean. The tele-
wire trayersing the land and
tn electric cable laid in the DEPTHS
Of the ocean have brought the utter |
most eXJremitieS of the earth into |
such close communication, that |
what happens in London and New
\ DIRK in the morning is known all |
over the habitable globe at night. |
So wondrOusly has knowledge in
creased within the past few wears
hat
PROFESSOR TYNDALL
Has described the ages which are
laSt as 'pre-Scientific.' The last
luarter OF a century has seen an
extension of trade and commerce
beyond all anticipation. 1t has seen
discoveries and inventions which it
axes volumes even to enumerate.
It is hard to say what subject of in
crest has not become more inter
sting more stirring. and more i'm
)0Ttant. Ancient cities have been
discovered. Central Africa has
,een opened to commerce. The
semitic races invite European civili-
alton. Egypt sends her
OBELISKS
% the west as monuments for the
lew order of things. The Bedouin
Arab and the whirling dervish
wander to the Orient to study the j
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