The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-09-03
STARTLING PREDIC-
TON.

and a Universal Cataclysm al
not Far Off-His Proof
Hand.
Special Dispatch to The Commercial
NEW YoRK, Aug. 2O.-The Ne
York Star this morning contain
the following startling letter frol
Colonel Blanton Duncan, of Louis
vile: Five years ago when / wrot
articles calling attention to comm
events which / considered certain
even the Star joined IN the unbe
lief while publishing the letters, O.
the ground, perhapse, of cepinI
with the sensational papers, Yol
were pleased to call my writing
remarkable, though you consider
ed l was very sensible in getting
closer to the equator to save mysel
''in the general devastation" thinl
you will perhaps acknowledge nov
that there has been something
more than extraordinary occurring
since / wrote:
"Reasoning from a purely scien
tific basis, the writer essays to prove
that the globe will, in all probabili.
ty, within the next five years, be
subject to such a visitation as that
which penetrates beyond the reach
of human history. In Scientific dis.
cussions that take such an extensive
scope as the one he has raised, the
conclusions raised are largely con-
jectural."
There has been no prophets since
the days of Malachi, therefore the
statements of men as to the future
are all "conjectural." Some may
be based on science, but the best
founded are those which stand upon
the revelations of the Bible. We
have not reached the maximum of
the disturbances which will bring
phenomena upon the world. The
intensity is to come, / think in the
next six months. Providence works
out ordained events by means of the
results flowing from the laws of ma
ture rather than accomplish them
by a series of miracles. Even Mr..
Robert Ingersoll may find difficulty
in explaining how those singular
occurrences are mere chance. As I
said of the great planets "Their
remarkable perihelia from 1880 to
1885, crowded in q shorter space
than ever before 1853 b. c., give
rise to conjecture and something
more than extraordinary may be
expected to occur"
/ fully believe in what Christ
said for the benefit of Christians in
the latter days, and that they, by
observing, might know what was
about to happen. Some of us see
more than mere chance now in the
(" signs in the sun and in the moon
and in the stars" Your earthA
quake, slight as it was, and hap
PLY without material damage, was
simply one of the warnings given
to call attention to what may come.
THE FALSE PROPHETS SIGNIFICANCE.
Some weeks ago-probably in
March, wrote to you letter on
the successor OF Mahemet, express
ing my opinion that he would drive
the English out of Egypt, and after
his arrival in Mecca (hIs objective
pOint) the Moslems 100000, 900
would be gathered under his ban
ners for conflict such as the world
had never before seen. / presume
that letter was not received, as you
did not publish it. The Bible con-
veys very conclusive evidence as to
the disasters which are to befall En-
gland. Unfulfilled prophecy also
points to terrible calamity upon the
Russians, in Ezekiel 38th and 39th.
The eleventh chapter of Daniel de~
scribes the events of the latter days
prior to the period ofgreat troubles,
and while the c0nqueror is i'm power
against whom Michael shall come !:
And at that time shall Michael stand
up, the great Prince which standeth for
the children of thy people; and there
shall be time of trouble such as never
was since there was q nation, even to
that same time.
Christ, in speaking eff the Second
Advent, made use of almost similar
words, regarding the events which
are to be His precursor. Daniels
description of the Prince who was
to conquer all nations can easily be
applied to Ell Mahdi. Numbers are
on his side. IF to that should be
added belief IN him as the foretold
Prophet who was to come 1900
years after Mahomet, the same fa-
naticism and ferocity which en-
abIed the Moslems to sweep over
Asia and Africa and Spain could be
easy of repetition In Europe as we'll
as Asia. The war between France
and China would be the stepping
stone to make the vast hordes of
China act cordially as the allies of
the prophet against the Christian
dogs; and the unwilling subjects of
Great Britain i'm India would GER
tainly not lose such an opportunity
of throwing off their yoke. Men
look on quietly as if the progress of
FL Mahdi had no significance for
them-which may result in the
greatest of all known revolutions
and the snbversion of all the present
political systems But all this is
foretold, that il should be now just
as il was in the days Of Noah, that
no warnings would be needed
:. until the flood came and took them
all away"
THE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK
IN our money making generation
while crime is rife aud daily the
papers chronicle the murder 0fmen,
women and children by hundreds
every week, i'm land which pro-
fesscs to be civilized-not much
thought will be given tomorrow Of
the affrighted momentin New York
and elsewhere last Sunday, when it
seemed as if the Day of Judgment
was coming, by those who do not
know their Bible teachings suifi-
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