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~The end Of the world is a favorite
theme with large class Of religious
teachers, and has been 50 from time inn
memorial. But not alone have prophecies
and speculations on this startling subject
been confined 20 oreligionists. Every race
of people in every age has had it, lurid
predictions by seers and oracles of the
end of the word. There are now living
many persons who remember the excite
ment and alarm which was produced
nearly SO years ago by the preachings Of
William Miller, of New York. who de-
clared that the end Of all flesh was near,
and who set the day of final consumma.
ton for date in October, 1874. Miller
published pamphlet entitled The Mid.
night Cry embellished with terrifying
pictures of the monstrous beasts which
are set forth in the apocalyptic books Of
the bible Since the days of Miller have
come many other interpreters on
prophecy, who, nothing daunted by the
failure of all the predictions that had
gone before them, did not hesitate 10 ap.
point dates for the contamination of the
end of the word. The last of these il
Professor Totten, of Yale College, who
has recently laid before the public his
explanation Of the ancient prophecies.
and has set the year 1899 for the time OF
the end. The data which have been
relied on 10 furnish a basis for the pre-
diction of the final day are found in the
prophecies of Daniel and in the Apoca-
lypse of St. John. In both those books
are set forth in detail predictions of
events which are to occur, and historic
panorama of numerous momentous hap
penings are unfolded to the view. For
each set of events period Of beginning
and time of duration are set, and at the
conclusion of the several series of hap.
penings the final consummation is 10
come.
The prophet Daniel, while the Jews
were in captivity in Babylon. received
many revelations which are claimed
to give accounts of what was to happen
down to the end OF the world, the start
ing point being the command by Cyrus
for the rebuilding of the temple at Jeru.
salem. There are several periods which in.
tervene between that event and the final
consummation. Among these are 70
weeks supposed to end with the crucihx.
ion of Christ and the subsequent destruc-
ton Of Jerusalem by the Romans. Then
there are periods of 1880 days, 1890
days, $500 days, and "a time, times and
half time, which are also subdivisions OF
the grand duration preceding the end.
Very much the same periods Of time are
also specified in the Book Of Revelation,
and students of prophecy for thousand
years have been endeayoring 10 harmon.
ize these two sets of data and to explain
just what is meant by the expressions
days" and times" used by the sacred
writers and to identify the principal
events that are to mark the close OF
epochs. The books that have been writ
ten on these subjects would fill house,
and the various and conflicting conclu.
sions that have been worked out are al
most past computation. The result il
that every date heretofore fixed for the
end of the world has disappointed all
who trusted in it, and our old planet
SCARED and scanned with the effects of
innumerable physical commissions and
stained with the crimes of its inhabitants
through all the hoary centuries of its
history, is still rolling around ON its path
through the heavens, its people planting,
and reaping, and carrying on their affain
as if no terrible prediction had ever been
made. New Orleans Picayune.