The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-03-23

testimony Of their own dates that it was
in just that year 1890, A. D., that tho
Our race studies were given TO the
world. (Study No l. Lost Israel found,
being dated March 20, 1890, A. d., J
Now, all Of these studss are related to
the specific midnight cry the second
study In particular was 80 denominated
aud by the further rYmth OF condolences
was actually dated September 22.189O;
i. e., treating the year as Jav, the Cry
was raised at the very midnight of tho
very year itself.
so much for your required familiar
illustration, aud can only say that il
we wish it absolutely and on the Julian
years, and to 60 deeper than the COM
mon mau cares to follow, you get the
facts by which n able to announce
even the strokes of the clock.
'lu the face Of many facts like these I
know that am right. We are at the
midnight hour Of the Christian dispensa-
ton, and am sure that stand and
cry aloud in the day Of the seventh and
final 'thunder,' and l am further salts.
fed that the seventh angel Of the Saw
iour's Revelation to St. John xxi: l5) is
soon TO sound the seventh and final
trumpet, which lifts the veil from the
mystery of God, but which is not to be
confused with the final trump as com.
monty understood. In spite Of misrep.
rcsentat: ons to the contrary. do not au-
tlclpate the end of the world. but The
beginning OF new aud better dlspeusa.
Lion. ] anticipate a crisis tomorrow, ,
and the millennium the day after.' [
expect the first resurrection very soon,
but not the second until thousand
years Of Golden Ago have sped away.
"ln the parable Of the ten virgins this
very same interval Of delay ls now we'll
under stood as the 'tarrying tima. during
which they all slumbcred and slept.
This / have already shown to have been
the seventy years Of g"neration since
1929, A. d., and in that it appears to
correspond both IN place aud purpnrt to
the interval accorded TO the seven thun L.
ders' OF Revelations. X, am led to in =
terpret the latter as heptad Of some
short, but strictly chronological degree;
that Is, as septcnary period. Whether
1T implies (5l 81 years) a seventh of a
Tine 600 years.; or but seven weeks
OF years (torty-nine years) or some other
similar. but relatively short heptad is
foreign to the purpose Of our present
discussion. 1t Is implied that its duration
Will be short enough upon whatever
scale it is to be measured. My own opin.
ion is that il corresponds to the hall
hour OF silence heaven Revelations: viii
| u with which the vision OF the seven
seals terminates, and to the time of the
noise on earth, i. e., Of the seven thuu
ders. The length Of the half-hor may
| C) be GU found as follows: This same
1910 Years-the time of the Gen tiles
the twentY.four hours; therefore, ont
hOur-l05 years and one hour-tifty two
and one half years.
'"These several periods may or may
not, aud probably do not, exactly coin
| eide, save perhaps as to their more i'm
portant terminal dates. AS an example
of similarly overlapping periods let it be
noted that from July to December 81
corresponds TO about half q common
year, of a year of independence, and Of Il
Presidential year. The fact of it is, |
believe, that all of the Gual eras are ter
mlnating in and around our current de-
cade. AS an instance ofanother take the
l2O years OF probation. AS in the DAYS
OF Noah they began with the dark day
OF New England, May 10, 1880. Now if
you examine the prophecy as written
and the history of that particular year
between the lines you will see that it
was TO follow immediately after certain
propheslcd events. These actually took
place in 1879 A. D. Hence l779.12O-
1899 a. d., prominent year in all my
calculations. Finally we are told that in
one hour judgment falls upon the u Us.
tlcal Babylon, and l believe that her
particular judgment terminates with
1898. The terror OF 1893 was it's type.
Seventeen hundred aud ninety four to
| 1898, bothlnclusiVe, give us the proper
lo5 years or hour, and enable US to have
1899 wherein to revlsw the matter as
in Revelations, xviii, 10.
| Any one desirOus OF knowing the
truth, and who will read the seventeenth
a l" eighteenth chapters Of Revelations
earnestly, aud with his thinking cap Of
history on his head, will come near
enough to the same conclusion to con.
vince him that we are not far from the
l26Oth year since human progress en-
countercd Its very worse set back and
thank' TO a certain phase of Chris ianitv.
falsely 80 called, went into the dark and
dismal Middle Ages. GENTLE Babvlon's
allotted span was 2 $50 years, and ever
since G37 A. d. they have been upon
The down grade. 1t we take the era in its
usual division, as week of 800 years to
day, then the 3GO years, or 'one day
OF Revelations, xviii: 8, date from an
event III Martin Llhar's life. But take
aIl this as you will. there is but one
conserving voice IN the exegesis of
prophecy. 70 wit: That we IRE abso.
!utel y at the midnight hour, and that its
tenth Stroke Is sOuuding."
Cleveland and whitney,
WASHINGTON, March l2.--ClOse upon