The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-11
MIDNIGHT.
The Last Hour OF the Old Era
Is Here
Prof. Totten. of Yale. Declares the Sec
ond Coming of Christ Less Than
Six Years Distant-The Mathe-
matics Of His Prophecy.
lcapYRIGHr. 1891

iCOPYRIGHF. 16S5.i
In the name of the God of Heaven,
Amen, /, the undersigned, servant OF
the Household OF Faith, in the calm
exercise of sound human reason, in the
full realization of my responsibility to
God and man. in spirit OF anxiety not
to be scorned by any who call them
selves Christians land supported with
solid facts that no man on earth can
successfully dispute and which any
scholar may verify. aye. and which
every honest scholar is now in bounden
duty to indorse if so be he will exam
inc this matter in behalf of his neigh
bors), and in the furtherance of due
and orderly but specially preparation
therefor, do hereby announce the
sounding of the twelfth stroke of "the
Midnight Hour" of the Christian dis
pensation.
It is now Low Twelve fully come
and call upon all who serve the Gv-
ing God to arise and trim their lamps,
for behold the Bridegroom also cometh!
Far be it from me to make such an
announcement without guarantees suf.
fcient to establish my authority be-
fore such as will examine them, and
further be it from all to whom these
presents come to misunderstood the
nature Of this summons. / am no
prophet, but am an interpreter, and
testify to facts upon whose accuracy
all who will may become satisfied. To
this end 1 have labored hitherto and
do not hesitate to magnify my Office
by every honest and legitimate method.
My aim is not to excite groundless
fears, or to traffic in credulity. l am
predicting no end to the world, and no
final crash of matter; but do declare
the fastening of all human institu-
tions towards that universal crisis
which is soon to measure every one of
them against the laws of the only God
Him of our own ancestors! And if
these human institutions shall be
found wanting at the august Assize
now in our own immediate future,
solemnly declare they will be con-
demned in Judgments, and inevitably
60 down without appeal, into the
abyss of all dead things.
But let it also be understood that it
is no mere chapter of unaided human
progress that is thus at hand. 1t has
indeed its human phase whereby
violated law reaps the whirlwind of
its own punishment, but it also has
its divine and superhuman accompani-
ments which will awe the world to
silence!
Now that which declare am also
able to prove, and that which I am able
to prove can be set forth in terms in
telligible to anyone who will verify
the matter at the bar of Gods word
and at that of history. In outline it is
as follows:
The $500 years Of "the times of the
Gentiles'' q Of $50 each) are within five
and three-quarter years of their full
solar termination. Jerusalem, which
has been ''trodden down" of them dur
ing this era, shall, at the end thereof,
be rebuilt upon her heaps and He who
cometh, according to His promise. will
save the tents of judah first.
To the Jews, therefore, do I an
nounce the pending termination of the
desolation, and that Kodesh, the City
of Delight. shall once more be theirs,
and that the branch shall flourish in
its midst!
In the meantime the literal fulfill
ment, item by item, of the Parable Of
the Ten Virgins will progress from now
on in an orderly and chronological
manner, beginning with the sixth
verse of Matthew 25, at and to the
.set time' to which we have now ar
rived.
There are twelve several events now
to transpire, in regular sequence, taxi
ing up such lengths of time, in months
and years, with a view to their neces-
sary evolution, as are ordained; and,
the total time is relatively
short it will be full and sufficient for
the purpose, but not having one in
slant to spare. They are as follows:
/. All the virgins arise.
2. And trim their lamps.
g. The foolish will find their lamps going out.
and their vessels empty.
4. They will then ask tho wise for OIL
g. The wise will perforce decline to accede
because they are not only (a) forbidden to sell
(b) but dare not give away that OF which no
man has to spare
9. So they will advise the purchase Of wisdom
from those who have 1t and can interpret the
Book.
:. Hence the foolish will have to buy.
And 10, while in the act, the Bridegroom
comes.
g. Those who are ready 60 in with Him unto
The marriage.
-
pei age.
H. Then the foolish will come. having learned
wisdom in the succeeding tribulation, and will
knock for admission.
IL. But will be treated as strangerA and be
denied entrance.
IS. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
This Parable is to be literally full
6lled in facts pregnant with renown,
which viii go down into history as do
other facts. The first seven sections
Of which. to all intents and appear
ances, will be merely the natural con-
sequences of measures already at work,
but urged to an unwonted activity BY
the exigency of collateral events, and
by the then fully recognized signs"
Of the times. The last FIVE of which
are also to have their natural aspects,
will at the same time all be dominated
BY supernatural ones, that none who
are Christians may by any possibility
misunderstood.
The world is not in it. for they have
aot come into it during the Days OF
irace-and NAV God have mercy on
them and make their tribulation short
There is an awfuiness connected
with this climax of the human drama
rot to be conceived nor set in goris,
and It behooves all who do not under
stand the terms am forced to employ