The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-23
ONE IN THE WILDERNESS.
Crying the Second Coming Of Christ
in the Year Of Grace
1899.
Tho World Has Lost It's Youth
and Times Begin to Wax
Old.
Lieut.. Totten's Interesting Mathematical
Calculations Laid Before the Brooklyn
Baptist Union Monday Night.

NEW York, May 22.-First Lieutenant
G A. L. Totten, Of the Fourth artillery
United States army, who is at present de-
tailed rs military instructor in the Shelf,
Asld Scientific school at Yale, believes that
the md of the world is at hand and that
Christ will reappear on earth before 1899
dividing Of time'' he laid before the Brook
lyn Baptist union Monday night.
believers in the Bible, who are also stu
dents Of prophecy said he, "are unani-
NOUS that it is now the time of the end,
that the current decade will see all things
fulfilled. There are dozens of time prophe-
cies in the Bible, and upon all of them the
same momentous date comes out. The one
shall give you this evening l consider to
be the most remarkable Messianic prophecy
in existence. It is startling in every aspect.
II is an entirely new and original discovery.
ION the 25th of March ! was engaged in
revising the matter having reference to the
Jewish feast of PUrim. its absolute date
and its actual bearing upon certain ominous
chronological events in our own near fu-
turs. That same day q stranger wrote me
from Chicago calling my attention to the
odd chronological riddle contained III the
book Of Esdras, which we haYe been taught
to consider apocryphal, but which has been
regarded as canonical by many Jews and
which many Of the early watchers recog-
nized as inspired.
s'The riddle he referred to will be ound
in the fourteenth chapter of the fourth
book of Esdras. verses 1912. 1t is as fol-
leFs: The world has lost its youth and the
times begin to wax old. For the world is
divided into twelve parts, and ten parts of
It are gone already and half of a tenth
part, andtthere remaineth that which is
otter half of the tenth part Seven-sixti-
hour.
Here, then, WAS a plain chronological
nut. and q nut worth cracking. NV CORE
spondent' was G. G. Dixon, of 152 La Sale |
street. Chicago, and his letter to ms Was
actually written to me on the Jewish feast
Of Purim itself, for the twensy-fifth day of
last March was the first day of this feast in
the current year. and a solution of the rid
die is New Years day of the thirteenth year
Of Ahasueras (466 B. c., the very year in
which the events commemerated by the
feast Of Purim actually took place"
Lieut. Totten then proceeded to do some
elseorate figuring before his audience,
and showed mathemasicaIly that the end
of the world was near. He concluded:
s'The chronology involved in this prophesy
is Of the most astounding character.
It strikes the ends of bosh worlds
SO to speak, or, to use Al a~rtil-
lery expression, it is ricochet. From the
momentous New Years day upon which
Esdras received it, it moves straight to the
mark December %, 1896, q. M, then bound
ing forward it buries itself in another year
Just ahead of us.
''To continue our artillery illustration
the trajectory of this awful cycle is so close
above our heads at this very minute that
we are almost in its dangerous space, and
believe will be there in another year.
But let it be clearly understood that this
calculation will afford no man any legiti-
mate clew for predicting the day or hour or
year of the impending second advent. But
] also believe that it is much nearer than
1885,"