The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-21
THE PROPHET OF THE POST.

If the scientific editor of the Post is
not prophet, he is certainly the son
of a prophet. He is as wise, at least,
as Mother Shipton, and is really
wiser than she, because he casts his
horoscope on the immediate in
stead of the distant future. This
prophet or son of prophet, proba-
bly, direct descendant of the old
Mother, is not inclined to hide his
preternatural science from the light
of the world, sad as the tale may be
he foretels, giving publicity TO no
doubtful generalities, for he leads
poor humanity up to the very brink
of the awful gulf that yawns, and
tells it to contemplate the end
that cometh. He accepts the
theory that conjunction OF
planets in 1881 is going to draw
the earth (the world" he calls it,
out of its course and the dire conse-
quence is to be conceived of only in
reading the most fearful passages OF
Revelations, unrevised. He has
measured the course of the great
orbs and knows the conjunction that
is going to disorganize the universe
will.Come within 1881. To prove it
he picks up theory that was dark
and doubtful before he discussed
it, and shows how the Pyramids oi
Egypt were made as an exposition OF
the earth's existence and the course
of the worlds divine dispensation !;
and he demonstrates how the end OF
the world was shown by the course
of hidden spectrums within the walls
ofthe pyramids; how these speetrums
point to heavenly incidents that
are soon to befall us, and from which
there is no escape. He believes that
this aperture or spectrum in the
pyramidal stones contains true eX-
position of the worlds history, and
the date of its end, and that mys-
tic Golfer therein unfolds the meas
urement, capacity and weight of all
earthly and celestial things, and that
therein is the true date of the end.
Therefore he bases his prophecy not
only on what he intuitively knows,
but upon a divine science as to the
end, which he knows was given by
God through the construction of the
Pyramids of Egypt. In other
words he solves the mystery
that has puzzled so many, that
of pyramid building, placing
their conception, as was Holy
Writ, in the revelations of Divinity
itself. Over six months of 1881 are
passed away, and therefore we must
know that some time within the
next five and half months the end
cometh. The terrible finale is there
fore not far away. Time wanes and
the seasons drag their weary course
along. Why it was that this pro-
phet held in reserve the date of
the end, until the Posts issue OF
July 10th, is one of the question,
that no mortal can solve. The wis
dom that belongs to this wonder
full man is not afresh, for it mas been
displaying itself ever since he ascend
ed from the ferule to the tripod. This
occurred only a few months since,
and this fact can appear in no other
light but that he was "called" to tell
man of his fate. Science and Scrip
ture combine, he says, to add
strength to his prescience, and we
conclude that there is no longer any
use to close ones senses to the fact
that he was advanced by the inscru-
table WAYS of Providence to
the editorial room, that he
might make the types tell the
tales that crowded upon his vision.
Nobly he has performed the work
delegated to him. He has taught
the world more science in six
months than it could have derived
from other sources in an age. His
mind does not grovel in worldly
but in heavenly affairs, and in the
eternal fitness of things. Politics
and crops and such things are not
questions disturbing his mind.
They are things earthly, while he
is thing heavenly, awaiting the fate
of Elijah, probably, as recognition
of his superlatiye understanding of
preternatural things. How sad the
thought, that all things must pass
away before this mans memory may
be perpetuated in prose and in song
and in marble. But the place that
has been set aside for him in eter-
nifty will certainly make him a
seraph amid the angel throng.