The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-09-06
END OF THEawORLD.
Affairs to be Wound Up
Unless Certain Prophecies Miscarry
The Chances Are That They Will
& AS They Have Before, So No
ga.. ,. One Need Be Scared. .


change in those passages which foretell the
sudden and unexpected dissolution of the
earth by fire. There are some slight changes,
but the most remarkable of lhem-tllat n the
II Epistle of Peter, third chapter---reads thus
in the Bible.
The heavens that now are, and the cart h
by the same word have been stored up for
fire [margin, "or with fret, teing reserved
against the day of judgment and destruction
fold version, perdltion] of.ungodly men,
But the day of the Lord will come as thief
fold version adds, Gin the night"]; in which
the heavens will pass away with great noise
and the elements shall be dissolved with fer
vent heat, and the earth and all the works
therein shall be burned up, [margn, for
"burned up," the most ancient manuscripts
read "discovered."]
Literal students of the Bible. especially of
the Advent or Millenial School, have long
been predicting the coming of the Son Of
Man to judgment, and the closing scenes of
earthly affairs, including a general mundane
confagration. They point with great conf
dence and apparent propriety to certain
prophecies of the OLD Testament, and to cer-
tain definite and positive allegations in the
Gospels and New Testament Epistles, show
ing that the end Of the world is to be burned
up, and that at an hour when men generally
are not looking for or expecting it the flames
of the final confagratiOn will break suddenly
forth, and the earth and all the works there
in will quickly be consumed. Then we are
told the Son of Man shall be seen "coming in
the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory. The dead in Christ shall be raised,
and, together with the living saints, be caught
up to meet their God in the air. while the
wicked shall miserably perish in the consum-
ing fire. After this, we are told, there will
be a new heavens and new earth wherein
righteousness shall dwell, and the Lord shall
reign IN person one thousand years.
1t is true that the millenarians have re-
repeatedly set specific times for the end of the
world, as alleged to be indicated by the
prophecies of Daniel and others, which the
event has prov. Incorrect; but they state that
further consideratl lv.l and more careful study
of the prophetic readings have revealed
their mistakes and convinced them that the
prophetic symbols really point to the middle
of the present year as the time of the end.
These diligent biblical scholars and stalwart
believers in prophetic revelations have been
greatly fortified and strengthened in their be-
lief, it is said, by recent discoveries in the
measurements of the great pyramids of Egypt
AS it has been found that the inch of meas
urement corresponds to year of time; and
the grand gallery or passage way measures.
in its total length, exactly 1887 inches, its
lower end being mar ked at point 33 inches
from the beginning by descent to we'll
corresponding, it is claimed, to the life of
Christ, which was 33 years. It. is therefore
calculated by these Psychologists that the
end of the Christian era, which is also to be
the end of the world, will be in the middle
of the present year, A. y. 1881. Just here
astronomy or astronomical etiology comes in
with certain statements as to peculiar Ii ove-
ments and positions Of the heavenly bodies,
pointing, it is averred, 10 this same period
and eliminating on the 10Th day of June.
Some brought their calculations down to so
fine a point as to set the precise hour of IL
o'clock a. m, that day, or very nearly that,
(Pacifc Coast time) as that of the commence
ment of the end of all things earthly, and the
breaking out of the worlds long pent-up
fires Prof. Hitchcock and other eminent
biologists have demonstrated, as they think,
from the regular increase of heat as we pro
ceed in our excavations toward The center of
the earth, that the worlds crust is compare
tiyely but thin shell, not more than fifty
miles thick, at most, that the great interior OF
the earth, comprising all but about one eight
eth of ITS entire diameter, is reservoir OF
fercest fire, of which volcanoes are the occa.
sional outlets. and that at the end of the
world this she'll will give way before the inter
nal pressure.
The perihetion passage of Jupiter occurred
in 1880; that of Neptune is indicated to be
November II, 1885, of Uranus in February
1881; and of Saturn, December, 1855. The
important "period Of strongest perturbation
i. e. when Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars,
Venus, Mercury and the Moon shall be joined
in the most direct line of attraction" occurred
we are told, at 3:45 O'Clock a. m. June 10TH
Wash ington time), which, allowing for the
difference in latitude, would be about II
o'clock here. CAT that time" it is ayerred
call the planets Of our solar system will be
on the western half of the Zodiac, and all
save one, Uranus, in the sign Taurus. Sc
close an approximation to the synchronou'
perihelia of the four superior planets has moi
occurred since the Christian era. From these
peculiar planetary conjunctions not few as