Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1891-05-24
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e,rliest times Of which We have any
history; far back us We n penetrate
the gathering gloom OF departed ages,
lei OF all classes, high and low, rich
and poor, learned and uniearned, wise
and otherwise, rather otherwise 1 am
inclined to think. have given time.
attention and far-fetched thought and
application in figuring out tho exact
timS OF the end Of tho world. Times
out OF number. men, with mor learn
ing than wisdom, have predicted the
day aud hour for tho destruction OF
all things mundane.
Miller succeeded, some forty or fifty
years ago, in creating widespread ex-
citsmeut and ulurm over his predicted
day and hour, but the end failed to
materialize and the most noticeable
event which did occur was the gather.
ing in Of tho usual number Of lunatics
into the folds Of tho mad-house.
Other individuals, n little less con-
spicuous, ut various times and places,
have come to the front with facts and
figures To demonstrate beyond the
shadow OF II doubt that the end is ut
hand. Yet tho years roll round and
the world continues to turn over US
OF old and tho end is not yet.
Mrs. Woodwork, Of recent date
with less ambition than some Of her
predecessors, seems to DO content with
predicting the overthrow and de-
%struction Of certain cities, advising
her deluded followers to floe to the
mountains for safoty. And it is but
just to say that by such flight many
poor victims escaped tho confines OF
tho mad-house.
4 descendant OF Ham, whose an
coLtors have long dwelt in tho shadow
Of the Dark Con %tinent, Is now busy,
so We arc told, in predicting thespecdy
destruction OF New York and Chicago,
while n professor OF Yale, with far
more vaulting ambition, has fixed tho
great day OF calamity and extinction
of all mundane things to occur in
1898.
But OF that day and hour (the ond
of the worldD knoweth no man, no not
the Angels Of Heaven" 1t has been
we'll said that Nature works no
miracles. The bases OF her actions
arc well defined laws, working with
harmonious regularity, and producing
legitimate results. She jumps ut no
conclusions, but reaches them by the
SLOW stops Of patient, tirelcss progress.
Tho volcano, avalanche and tornado,
carrying death and destruction upon
their shoulders, are but tho sudden
fruits Of elaborate preparation in tho
secret reccsses OF her laboratory.
Matter is from everlasting to over
lasting, without beginning of days or
end OF timo. Matter is indestructible.
We may de-omposc, divide, subdivide
aud change ali known substances in
earth, air and waters, organize and
inorganize, but tho essential prin-
ciples which combine 10 make uD n
complete whole cannot DO destroyed
and remain always and forever the
same.
But change, indeed, ia written upon
tho brow OF the universe and tho time
must come, however remote, when
there will be a new heaven and Il new
Garth. The earth has long since
grown gray and wrinkled with age.
LOSS OF heat, the consequent thicken-
ing OF tho earth's crust, tho cooling
down OF tho internal fires and heat
which have operated ~ an important
factor in koeping the water to tho
surface, contraction, depression and
upiloavel have made and are making
their footsteps SC plainly visible that
he who runs may read.
The parasites that multiply and
crawl upon the ground or swim in tho
water are sapping up the lite,giving
substances and hastoning with might
and main the approach Of that period,
yot hidden in the womb OF time, whom
I'll hidden things must die. Tho
waters OF the rivers and the great
deep aro slowly but surely rcccding
from oil the face OF tho earth, and tho
timo will come in some far reaching
epoch OF eternity, when tho internal
heat has smouldorcd cold and low,
tn" Garth will hnvo absorbed all the
waters into itself and will thon float,
like the moon, cold, dead and desc
late, "a world in runs" Yet another
period in immensely when by collision
and grinding together rs have been,
heat may ngnin hc generated, again
expansion and repuIsion, again tho
fire returns. Ict again contraction,
conmingling OF light and darkness,
separation, and behold in timo n new
heaven md q new earth, teeming with
life, energy and activity, with man Mt
the hoad to worship and adore "the
being wo call God and know no more"
III II man dio shall no 1.-Two again?"
Tho universal expectation, longing
for and looking to n future state, i'm.
morality, life beyond tho grave, by nil
nations, kindreds and tongues OF tho
earth, is pretty conclusive testimony
that Nature, truo 10 herself in all
things, will not DO false in this, md
nan will exist gomoH horo and SONG
how In lilo after dcuth.
INDEPENDENT,
T%uscarora, May II, 1891.