New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-29

coming to an end is not. my thoughts will not
have much effect TO prevent the catastrophe or 10
hasten IL; neither Will the specuatons Of any other
man" ,.,..-. $500. .. .,,.,. 49, rui,
ministers DO no; know any more on this than
other men, and the Bible OF the Christians Is not
the only booi; containing vague hints which have
been variousy rerqG ragon 5 az
times, and theories thereon shave oeen elaborated
heard from the Egyptians you Will find the same
mins Of India have always taught the same thing.
and they axe the persons who have given the the
cannot be said OF tho Christian books
Then you DO not think the Bible is sure guide
in its way it has some things BY way Of hints.
but they were all borrowed from much older ma
tons from the Jews; taken bodily and very much
obscured by the nomadic and rude people who got
and astronomical record. and also a record Of Old
attempts at correcting the calendar: The story Of
whoever he was he tiled to rcctify the calendar,
then In a state OF hopeless confusion. in which the
place and conceded with nothing The moons place
being Mrons and all m2y S If b p naSGg D
did In our own In such way as 70 provide for
tine Gr2cory vii be another Joshua OF whom It
will be said that he caused the sun ana the moon
The ancients knew the fact to be That that
periodically tse e4 Ioot goes and de
Tgyntjans told Soion From these arise al
he great world stories Of floods and the Ike
each nation having one to suit itself according 10
tts tosfe and memory We have only a Of
ragged remnant derived from the Jews. who got
Il from the Egyptians ana me latteI IRON .he
zojia- show to the sage when a great cataclysm
IS 10 come. and the Bible refers 10 the same ~nen
OF Man IN the heavens; that IS, when the sign
of the man is IN ceT ~ Ike that of Jonan
Is Astronomical. relating % the sun IN the zoclac
he SOUTH or the house Of death for three days and
30 on When You consider that IT takes me sun sun
the zodiac. you can see what great 'huicd'o'
that belt Is"
SOME ASTRONOMICAL POiNTs.
"Now. II you Will consult modern standard books
on astronomy, you viii see that they agree with
the ancerts In saying that the procession OF the
equinoxes is caused by the gyrating or altering Of
the pole OF the earth that. as the anconts soic
we now say that 1000 years ago the
pole OF The earth pointed 70 different star from
that one II now IS fixed on. and that later II VIII
move 10 stiIl another. These polar changes bring
ON GooJs and other disturbances for different parts
~ the earth -Four great alterations are thus made
co tha Your cardinal points Thcsc four divide
equally by two diameters the whole great sidcrcAI
recorded In several ways by the sates one way
was to put It into religious or holy book; another
The latter well as the former We have In Den
derab EgyP Is b one &c. Gs wa Ds made no doa6
10 record a great change. another is in India ana
story OF tho flood Of Noah. but one Of many.
thought TO be universal because the people Who
had tf rude: ami We hay" been too lnntrrltl-
istic and vain to take anything from the older
Hindu and Egyptian. .
.'Thn four great changes correspond IN way 10
tho -four yucas or ages OF the Hindu at the END or
each OF which on very lmportcnt alttra-
tion They fix the date by the Death OF kri3hnd
nearly 1900 years arc end say that ire
first 300 years Of the black age WIZ end
about 1881. Thou many ;hines viii conc to an
end But thry Will be such things ~ theological
superstition and many wrong systems Of thought,
ms well as Of society Catacysms will also have
place. being lue to accumulation Of ~" forces
which for many years past have been causing con
vu.sons in all parts OF the world.
How Gicl; win bc the physical disturbanccs |
certainly have 10 means OF knowing, bat certainly
there ought q hc some Of vast Inai;htude. And II
is such happ' ungs the bible and all Ike hool'
r..fer Men :! of fear, and being also ignorant,
they think II VII be The end OF the world. Bnt
do not believe that Is to be for many millions OF
years yet.
~, II yon asked me VIII the world come 10
ena.' would say yes. IT, the course OF many mill
ions OF years. That will be when all the races OF
men considered souls will have fnished all the
possible experience they could have on this planet