The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-23
a KENTUCKY PRopHEr.
A List Of Direful Things which Are to oc-
During the Coming six Months.

i while publishing the letters on the ground per-
i haps of coping with the ensational papers.
/ You were pleased to eal my writings s.remArka-
\ bie,' though you considered was very sensible
IN getting closer to the equator to save myself in
| the general devastation" / think you will per-
4 haps acknowledge now that there has been
1 something more than extraordinary occurring
4 since wrote:
Reasoning from purely scientific basis, the
writer essays to prove that the globe will. in all
| probability, within the next Ave years, be sub
| Jeeted to such visitation as that which pene-
i trates beyond the reach of human history. In
scientific discussions that take such an extensive
scope as the one he has raised, the conclusions
raised are largely conjectural"
There have been no prophets since the days of
Malachi therefore the statements of men as to
1 the future are all ''conjertural' Some may be
based on science, but the best founded are those
4 which stand upon the revelations of the Bible
4 We have not reached the maximum of the dis
4 turbances which bring phenomena upon the
4 world. The intensity Is to come, / think sin
4 the next six months Proyidence works out or
| dalned events by means of the results flowing
| from the laws of nature rather than accomplish
/ them by a series of miracles Even Mr. Robert
| lngersoll may find difficulty in explaining how
4 those singular occurrences are mere chance. As
| L said OF the great planets: Their remarkable
1 perihelia from 1880 to 1885, crowded in shorter
i space than ever before 1850 B. G., give rise to
| conjecture and something more than extraordf-
nary may be expected to occur
| fully believe in what Christ said for the ben
4 eft 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 earthquakes, slight
as it was, and happily without material damage,
was simply one of the warnings given to cab at
| tention to what may come
Some weeks ago-probably in March, wrote
to you letter on the successor of Mahornet, ex-
pressing my opinion that he would drive the
English out of Egypt, and after his arrival IN
Mecca this objective point the mosiem 3e0 000,-
| 600 would be gathered under his banners for
conflict such as the world had never before seen.
! presume that letter was never received as you
| did not publish it. The Bible conveys very con-
elusive evidence as to the disasters which are to-
befall England Untitled prophecy also points to
/ terrible calamity upon the Russians in Ezek1al
/ 18th and 39th. The eleventh chapter of Daniel
describes the events of the latter days prior to
/ the period of great troubles and while the con-
queror is in power against whom Michael shall
come:
And at that time shall Michael stand mp the great
prince which standeth for the children Of thy people,
and there shall be time of trouble such never was
since there was nation, even to that same time.
Christ, in speaking of the second advent, made
! use of almost similar words regarding the events
which are to be his precursor Daniels descrip
ton of the prince who was to conquer all ma
| tions can easily be applied to Ell Mahdi Num-
bers are on his side. If to that should be added
| belief in him as the foretold prophet who was
to come 1,200 years after Mahomet the same
| fanaticism and ferocity which enabled the Mos
| lens to sweep over Asia, and Africa, and Spain,
could be easy OF repetition in Europe as well
/ as Asia. The war between France and China
would be tue stepping stone to make the vast
hordes of China act cordially as the allies of the
| prophet against the Christian dogs; and the UNI
willing subjects of Great Britain in India would
/ certainly not lose such an opportunity OF throw
/ ing off their yoke. Men look on quietly as if the
| progress of Ell Mahdi had no significance for
! them which may result in the greatest Of all
/ known revolutions and the subyersion Of all the
/ present political systems. But all this IS fore
told, that it should be now just as it was In the
/ days of Noah, that no warnings would be heed
/ ed-"until the flood came and took them all
/ away
IN our money making generation-while crime
| is rife and daily the papers chronicle the muir
! der of men, women and children by hundreds
every week in land which processes to be civ
| ilized-not much thought will be given to-mor-
/ row of the affrighted moment in New York and
| elsewhere last Sunday, when it seemed as if the
4 day of judgment was coming, by those who do
not know their Bible teachings sufficiently to
| see that the days Of stribulation" must first
/ come
Neither will they be persuaded, though one rose
| 1t is a remarkable thing that the Bible plainly
! gives the nature of the physical phenomena
| which are to come:
/ Famines and pestilenees and earthquakes in divers
/ places.
And fearful signs and sights shall there be from
/ heaven
/ st. John gave specific details:
| And every mountain and island were moved out Of
| their place.
i And there is to come
i A great earthquake. such as was not since men
were upon the earth--so mighty earthquake and so
great. And the cities of the nations fell and every
island lied away and the mountains were not found.
And there fell upon men great hail out of heaven,
/ every stone about the weight Of a talent.
\ MI :.
the past two years is such as no historian has re-
corded. England has been startled with one
\ severe enough to demonstrate that few mo-
| ments Of continuation would have leveled all her
| cities to the ground. Three minutes Of your
| New FORK movement would probably have made
| a mass of ruins, with three fourths of the peo7
/ pie destroyed. Cannot the hand which shook
/ your city tor ten seconds--as a wapning-send
| another shock sufficient IN intensity to produce
results like those in the East Indies six months
ago, when 100, 900 perSops were destroyed in the
i twinklings of an eye, and mountains 600 feet
| high were engulfed, and islands arose at sea
where previously no bottom could be found and
the deep sea swept over a spot where a territory
| half as large as New York State had fiourshcd
i in Injurious cultivation only the day before2
| The record of that t9rrible event on the other
side Of the globe has been long lost sight of in
New York, and the ten-second fright produced
| more excitement and alarm viii not say con
sideration-than several terrible calamities else
i where could conjure up
Another sign Of remarkable significance has
been occurring. Repeated hailstorms during
which many persons have been destroyed and
| houses have been rddled as though cannon had
been fred against them. This is foretold as
ore of the visitations, from which men cannot
escape. Blocks of ice, every stone about the
weight Of q talent" Seven pounds is a talent
Scotfers have said this was impossible. Yet,
within the past month, in Europe and in the
/ Unite States these masses of ice, described as
| weighing six or seven pounds, have fallen, car
\ rying destruction to man and beast and crops
/ and houses.
Do such things mean nothinga Is it chance
alone which sends TO England the pAenomena of
/ $50 degrees Of heat-neaPly as high as the
highest ever recorded in Africa by Humboidt--
/ 1852 To those who know the English climate
| and the English, this will be seen to DO even
\ greater phenomenon than their earthquake At,
I eiohtv degraes in the shade tha Enolish ara n.