The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-10-02
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material holy. Mr. Nj cur. , the
Ep scop"l hereto, undo edly is in
accord with The dr # Oh ro estunt
opinion of the day. That leads t."
the belief that the body r. kurns To
earth and the soul alone passes mo
the tntnrG state.
Such is no' the opinion Of the Rev,
!. s. Waugh M, WHO discusses he
great quest ON in the Dublin Rccttto
His theory is that the rc1urrrrtna "t
the body solve, the problem "i the
final destiny of the earth. and he
bases it on the sound teach ngs Of
then. o .inns'' and the ''nccrpted truths
of sc cnce" In hrirf. it is when the
nrrhanrei sounds the last trump and
sun .uns the dead IN arise from their
graves aud come to Judgement, the
whole Of this planet will vanish W ID
them, for their bodies wi comprise
all the matter of which it is cOm~
posed.
MIR Vaughan reaches his novel and
very nte'.sting conclusion l;y the
ali of the statist cs OF tile growth OF
population and scientific calculations
of the weight of the earth. lie goes
down to hard facts, and proceeds
with the cool o: the arlthmeti'
Clan to defend his thesis.
Ills first po mt is ,hat the tendency
Of science is to rednce the numher ol
substances regarded rs eleiuenta
~, 70 that the time is likely to come
when only one universal elemental
substance viii he recngniZed. Next
ne refers to 1.-THE scientific fact that
, the absolute amount Of matter, or, III
other words, jLe sam total It I'LL thSt
exists in the material universe, is
ever a constant quantity Nothing
new, he argues, is created except hui
man sppis; and they arc put IN ''earIh
" tabernacles kneudcd together lrGm
existing matter" and subject to The
laws Of matter.
i That is the start ng point, and from
! it he proceeds 10 make his reharka
bls culculat; MS and ded4 'tions.
The weight Of the earth, according
to the scales of Science. is 6,OOu, 600,
OUO, ,OUu, ,uvQ;OU0,00O tons. "lr Yau
CHAN estimates by the year G,Gu9 t"s
population Of The earth at the present
raic Of increase wi ! he about 32O,
600, 900, 900, 100000, Unless eve'J
one of i!;eas people returned hi:
body to the earth, as he truly re
marks, There would be steady an'
announcement diminution of its bulk.
as the ages go on and the dead mul
tip'y, tue wEDle of EXISTING matte
will he absorbed by lliciF bgaes
There will be nothing except th'
earthly tabernacle "f uls hence
when the last man Il e., and on TIT
final day when the src' angel sends
forth tile command tn s'ar !se ant
come 10 Judgment ye that dwell II
the DUST the earth must disnppea
With the dead. "When every soul o
man that has ever lived, from Adam
TO the final crack Of doom, has claim
ed his body" asks Mr. Vaughan, :'wil
will there be anything left OF tl'
present little orb on which we dwell?
The only answer is nothing, abso
lutely nothing. If the whole world
all matter, is made up Of dead bodies
take them away and vacuity remains
The exact time of the day Of judg
ment would therefore seem computa
BILE, if Mr. Vuughan's argument j!
sound. 1t will come when 80 many
persons shall have lived from th'
beginning, that, on reclaiming thei
bodies, thc wholo substance of th'
earth will be ptiized in meeting the
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