The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-12-25
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Come with me.
Let US roam in the misty pathways Of
the past.
We will not cumber ourselves, but cast
off the material body and fit from scene
to scene in the spirit alone
Let us alight on this noble parapet wall
Behold Are not those wonderful forti-
fcations?
See what a number of stately palaces
Look The streets are paved with
marble.
What queerly robed people
And off yonder--see the numerous
temples How magnificent ! And so
peculiar in their architecture.
But look beyond the fortifcations-se
those thousands and thousands of mud
bowels, stone grottos and caverns. How
strange to see such signs Of poverty and
squaller so near to such grand city.
Look See what mass of humanity
is moving about in the streets This is
certainly a populous city. And such
strange looking people.
What country and what age is this?
will tell you.
We are looking now at one of the grand
old cities of Persia. The time? Don't
think strange. Remember that we have
cast off our individuality, and, in the
spirit, are wandering in the past. 1t is
now in the year one thousand and three
think of it. We have gone back three
thousand, one hundred and eighty-eight
years.
But look What Grand old man is
that standing in front of the temple yon-
der?
That is Zoroaster, the noble old Persian
prophet. But listen. He is speaking.
Hearken to his words:
'In the latter times Child shall be
Divinely generated, and when He is born
a Star shall appear shining in the day
time. Ye, my sons, shall first of all peo-
pie see this Rising Star. When ye behold
it, 90 the way it shall lead YOU; worship
the new born Babe and offer Him your
gifts He is the Word bv which the
heavens were made"
Mark well those words, spoken bv To-
roaster, and remember that the time is
one thousand, three hundred years before
the Child-Christ is born.
Now come with me to China, and lis
ten to the words of wisdom from the lips
Of Confucius. The time now is five hun.
dred and one years before the birth Of
Christ. Coufucins, the Chinese Sage and
Moralist, is talking to his people. What
sayest he He is telling them that
"The Holy One will appear in the
West - and he speaks of the time of His
coming. He tells them that the Holy
One will come when the planets Jupiter
and Saturn are in injunction in the con-
stellation Of the Fishes.
The prediction Of Confucius was so ex-
plicit that during the lifetime of Christ
the Chinese government sent an embassy
TO Rome to inquire if Augustus was the
Holy One who was to consume sin. He
did not strike them as such, and they re-
turned home and reported their failure.
The government was not satisfied, and
afterward sent them back again. But in
the meantime the earthly life of Christ
had been ended upon the Cross, and as
the event had occurred in the isolated
and quiet province of Judea, they failed
to hear of it, and returned to China, be-
coming Buddhists instead of Christians,
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heard the story of Christ; for it was He
that they were seeking.
But these prophecies are not strange.
Did not Job tell of the coming of Christ
as far back as one thousand, five hundred
and twenty years before His birth And
later on, seven hundred and sixty years
before His birth, did not Isaiah prophecy
his coming?
Now, back still further we 60. Have
we not proof sufficient, from the Hebrew
Bible itself, thatit was not the first BIZ
ble-aye, far from it. The human race il
much older than we have history 70
prove. The generations before Adam
had their bibles, or Scriptural Writings.
and from the latter chapters of these were
the early portions of the Old Testament
compiled. These old scriptural writings
have long since been lost, unless it be, aa
asserted by Swedenborg, that they liz
buried in some of the ruined cities, o
that age, in the innermost wilds of Asia
to be found and restored in the ages to
come, when man seeks in the bowels o
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