The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-07-27
TIE EMANCIPATION OF MAN.

ulnS centre. SO also plain and simple
rules of trade in money, weights.
measures and other like matters ex
pedlate business, save time and pre-
vent misunderstanding, and are also
of commercial value to the place and
to the parties. 1t is also of value 10
trader to have his place of business
on the ground floor, and thus not
oblige old, or lame or weak persons
to ascend and descend a flight of
three or less or more steps But not
to insist upon these things which are
not quite in the line of my subject,
the mention of them will show many
ways in which to emancipate man and
trade.
For instance, we are told that sixty
geographic, and sixtynine and half
statute miles, make one degree. So
now when we are told that in the trial
trips of the United States war vessels.
they make % knots an hour, it takes
sum in arithmetic to tell how many
miles that vessel goes in an hour !;
and without that knowledge, no per
son who may read the account will or
can get any definite idea or under.
standing upon the subject. How
easy 1t would be, and how correct
scientifically it would besto make the
geographic and the statute mile agree
all over the world, and thus give spe.
cifc and positive information to all
the boys and girls and men and wom-
en- who read that the cruiser .Minnea-
polls made an average Of 23.o5 knots
an hour, that it was just so many
miles, instead of as now, having no
idea of the distance, or fortunately
being able to make the calculation,
and thus finding it to be a6.57 miles,
of the present method of measure
ment.
For instance On the question Of
eras, dates and neutrality-suspicious.
generally biblical and others, now re-
ect Archbishop Ussher-but whether
satisfactory or not, methods of COM
putation and reference might be great
ly sinplihed. We now begin, at the
estimated period of the creation of
Adam, to-wit, 1904, or the period of
any other chronologist whom we may
choose to follow, and count down to
/, as the year of the birth of Christ,
and then up until we arrive at the
present period. 1t is awkward and
unsatisfactory and is without rule or
obligation. So another begins the
creation at the year for the creation
of Adam, and counts up without a
break.
Thus we have computations by the
year of the world, A. M, Ammo Mum
di; or A. c., Ante Chrlstos, before
Christ; or Ammo Domini, year of our
Lord, and begin at his birth with A.
ID. There is nothing said here about
other eras of computation, Mohamme-
dan, Budhistic, or whatever nor to
Tx an era as the years so on; nor to
discriminate for or against.
But to start with the creation of
Adam, or the appearance of mankind
upon the earth, as the year and
compute from that time would be the
natural, regular, logical and chrome
logical method. We are now six or
eight thousand years from that period,
SO Tar as historical data enables us to
determine, and as we are nearing the
time for great change in the govern
ment OF the world, by God its crea-
ator, we might as well get ready and
open correct and simple account
with time. These changes come with
considerable regularity at the end Of
every two thousand years, and we are
now struggling and groaning and
Watching IN the beginning of the one
hundred and twenty five years OF prep
afation before the end of the present
1000, the time since the birth o.
Christ.
NO man can look over the worlC
at the present time and consider it:
wars and rumors of wars, its destruct
I'VE earthquakes, its great inundations
'he terrible ravages of various diseases
ana the spontaneous and almost uni
vefSal uprising and lawlessness of the
inhabitants, without very grave appre
henslons of the future, and of the de
nuhclatons of the Apocalypse. Wheth
Ct the Millennium will then be usheret
ln' or the Devil be unclaimed from
'ne Bottomless pit, are questions o
grave concern to those who may ther
NC awe upon the earth.
Y. Y. z.