The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1882-04-01

mlnus' 1haClmpreBsl0nl Is not even
now eradicated; the question Is ask
cd, whether the prophecy did not
mean "about the time Of 1872 and
the fulfllment still be nears Jgst
at this juncture comes another pre-.
diction that reviyes all the old ideas
about the world being burned up
at no distant day. This time it is
neither an old witch nor a long
haired fanatic that gives warning Of
the dreaded catastrophe. The ,,ory
of warning comes from the ranks Of
science, and is backed up with all
the array Of erudition and all the
mystic influence of aStronomic lore.
The telescope is the revealer, "the
stars in their courses" have divuIg-
ed the solemn secret. Mr.. Proctor,
better known by his writings than
any other living professor ofastrOn-
omy, assures the world that a CON.
ct, whose terrific appearance alarm
ed every nation Of the world, civil
lied and barbaric, in 1868, and
that has appeared at several inter
walls since that date, has all along
been drawing nearer and nearer to
the sun as shown by the shortening
intervals at which it appears, and
that in fifteen years it will have
come so far within the suns attrac'
ton, that its centrifugal motion
will be neutralized, and it will fall
into the sun with all the immense
train of meteoric objects that are
circulating in its wake. The shock
of the collision will engender an
immense amount of heat, and com
ct and meteorites will be food for :
confagration whose vastness defel
all mortal calculation TO estimate
1t is but few years ago that ,oal
amazed astronomers gazed in awe
at one ofthe stars of the we'll; know
constellation, Corona :, lBorealis
Suddenly that star, a mere DOT o
the ninth magnitude, assumed
great increase of size and brlllian
cy--it was sun in phenomena
confagration. That confagratiOn
there was no doubt was the resul
of some body outside Ofltself strik
ing upon it, as the coming come
will strike upon our sun. To tn,
earth, asOns of the planets circulat
ing round the central luminary, thi
collision will be extinction by fire
The atmosphere will grow warnie
and warmer until the heat glow
with a force that will wither al
ve,oAtation. idry up the streams an
Erivers, and draw up to the skies tn
vast seas themselves, which will as
cend in vast columns Of steam. Th
very ice of the poles will becom
flowing waters, and the. waters vii
dissipate and vanish amid the hor
rors they are powerless 70 subdu
or mitigate. The earth will b
left a vast mass Of bare and vitrifie
rocks, amid whose awful grandeu
everlasting silence willshave it
dwelling, for long before the CON
pletion of the doom is reached al
animal life will have perished, tn
maid and the wife, the child and tn
man, the fool and the hero, wi
alike. have been engulphed' i
the uhutterable burnings This an
nouncement has attracted univel
sal attention. In England the bist
Op of Manchester, in, a thrillini
sermon, pointed OUT how all th
fearful phenomena it proclaim
agrees with awful warnings Of hol
writ. All the treasures of the ealt
alloits grandeur and greatness, Al
its beauty and its wisdom will be q
though they had never been. Tha
commentators upon scripture, an
cient as we'll bao'as modern
have traced a convsrging Ofalth
figures Of prophecy to the declin
;.n v,ort;nn IF tha nraso,,f nnrtu.,