The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-18

NEW HAVEN, Or, July H,-Lieuten-
ant O, l. A, Totten, in IN interview
gives the following as his opinion oil
the recent financial crisis; st seems
inconceivable to me that amid all this
rapidly increasing epidemic of disaster
no one daros, in splitting a myriad OF
editorials all through the press, to
assign the real cause and to add a sober
comment to the warnings l have so per-
~sistently uttered during the last four
years, We are hearing the eleventh
stroke Of the midnight hour. Its na'
ture is apparently financial, but in
reality the confusion Of Affairs enter
into every order Of human policy. The
human race has sown to the wind, and
is now about to reap the whirlwind.
We are at the termination OF tho
times OF the Geptiles, and tho period
Of judgment has actually begun. Things
will not ret better, but rather worse.
In March / pointed out the sounding OF
che tenth stroke oil the midnight hour
and announced tho June s~olstice for
eleventh. | now reiterate tho state
ment that was made, to-wit: That the
autumnal equinox will mark the twelfth
stroke. Thereafter it is low twelve
fully come, and the consequences will
follow in an orderly and chronological
manner. 1t would seem that every
man and woman, ut least OF my own
race, Israel, would reread, aud that
right carefully, the parable OF the wise
and foolish virgins in this connection.
II would then be seen that 1t Is by no
means the end OF the world that ts at
hand that | am so often misrepresentod
as expecting, but fRr different matters.
We are approaching tho crisis which
must precede the millennium. The opti-
mistic's day is over, and the scene OF
facts drown the whistle w%herewith
which he seeks TO keep his courage up.
These troubles, which are matters OF
common conversation nowadays, are
world wide. They will not down.
Their centre is everywhere, their cir
cumierence nowhere. They mean dis
aster TO rotten institutions, tho BURST
ing Of all inflated enterprises, the OK
posuro OF deceits OF every description
and the trial Us by fire Of every mans
work. You may call it what you will.
] call ii by its proper name, as written
by the prophets OF Jehovah. 1t is
Judgment Its duration, as 1t were, u
week OF years, and, for that matter,
all the years that follow, even to the
millennium, u duration OF 1000 years,
or u day OF the Lord, as st,
Potter calls it, will be a period
of judgment to all who do upright.
eousness therein. But enough:a word
TO the wise is sufficient. My timc 10 all
occupied in close chronological study. l
would gladly write the manuscript de-
failing these unanswerable vindications
OF the Scripture in my life's blood II
that would insure their speedy examin-
alton at the hands OF those for whom
they are published. But all this is
idle; it seems impossible to reach those
whom l long with an unattainable
anxiety to bring into a knowledge Of
what now must shortly come to pass.
It is a case Of fiat %iustitia ruat coelum,
for as III the days OF Noah, 80 shall it
BIO in the days of the Son Of Man,
There are signs enough to awake the
dead, and l believe, rs 1t is written,
that sign itself shall not be wanting"