Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-31
PROFESSOR TOTTEN.

He Says He is MtsquOted and Does
Not Predict the End of the World.
The following from the New York Sun
tells of an interview with Lieutenant Tot
ten and in it the lieutenant takes the op-
portunity to say that he is frequently mis-
quoted, fact which friends of the
professor wish to see circulated:
"Do you know, Professor Totten, that in New
York there are many people who regard you as
man who is crazy on this subject?' asked the
The professors face relaxed. He swung back
in bis chair and laughed OF course do, ;" he
they say predict the end of the world. That is
not so, as you know. There are numerous
do%D TO- the S
overthrow of Antichrist and the beginning of
the millennium on the earth, It is needless to
lines. They have all been followed down with
POINT poi ''''' 'A''' iA'' oil '0D'e 70 'he same
Professor Totten talked as a man very much
in earnest and told in detail some of the lines on
which he had calculated. He had proved to his
day, when joshua, on the battlefield Of Hebron,
commanded the sun to stand still, and 1t stood
true He had also proved to his own satisfaction
that the story Of Jonah and the whale and the
story of the food were true stories. On the
mathematical demonstration of the proof of
these stories he pinned his faith on the whole
Bible and all the prophecies in it His manner
and his talk was intensely interesting. He talked
as man who knew of what he spoke.
His eccentric act In spiking copy Of his last
book to telegraph pole in the main street in
New Haven was mentioned IN the course of the
interview.
II spiked it to the POLE" he said, with delber-
works Of Huxley and Ingersoii who tried to dis dis
prove the stories of the flood and of Joshua s
basis that the calculation was undertaken n AND
has b-en carried to It's end The title, "A Scien-
tific Spike Through Noah's Ark is fitting to the
the first copy, hope. has justified or will Justify
the end in view. great many persons regarded
this act of mine as eccentric. see nothing odd
with deh6erate intent as soon as the idea was
s,HggestHsad spd t,a te5sy as explained at tie
cities OF Israel and spike q copy Of that volume
on every town post, and am confident that be-
anteed his second advent by reference to the
flood would fulfill his promise and be here. The
book deals with the blunt question upon the data
have applied astronomic tests to the very date
and proved the truth of the story. I am conf.
Have your brother professors ever made any
complaint OF your advancing these things as a
:They have not, said the pfofessor who then
told something of what he thought the millenni-
~ Sm would be IKE beginning with the Catching
scribed In Revelations.
Every human system of civilization, j." he said,
haS pLoNCu . WIcCk. lu0 one tnaC Is TO De Will
not be human. But the nations will be ruled to
Of IRON
OF hell the professor said: ut is not lake Of
fire and birthstone. think that death to the
wicked is Snnihilation: To the Christian IT is
enjoy the fruits Of their obedience. The bad will
-, BACK On the subject Of putting his work before
the world as q professor In Yale the professor
defended his right to do that. He did not care
Tor the title, he said, only that the place gave
him chance to work for himself in spreading
his doctrine.
II will not be here much longer" he said. 81
vas sent here for three years. Ny time is up ON
July q, and will rejoin my regiment at At
lanta. do not know whether viii be ap-
pointed to I'LL place in some other college than
YALE But whether put the facts have dis |
covered before the World as a professor of Yale
facts all the same, and will give them TO the !
world as It Is my duty and my privilege"
Regarding his alleged prediction that the
world would end on March 30, Lieutenant Tot
ten said yesterday that i've of the Boston /
papers bad misquoted him. He added that he |
had nothing to take back, that he would stick to
every word he uttered in the Boston lecture |
and that the world Is entering ga week Of years
= which mems hearss win be tried By fire, sym.
botcally understood"