Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-11-15

ern MlilefiteS. One Oh these terroriStS, as
the good people OF Oakland call the pro-
phetic preachers, is Rev. F. F. Young, and
the other is Rev. J. II. Allen, whose fol-
lowers called the "Watchers. are wait
ing for the second coming of the Lord.
These two strange missionaries We're IN
known to each other until they met in
Oakland. They are as unlike as it is pos
sible to be. The methods by which they
have arrived at their strange theories are
entirely different, but they ara both preach
ing the same thing and at about the same
time. They differ about u year IN the
time set, bat this is because one figures
from the civil year of the present day and
the other has adopted the Jewish year as
the true one and figures from that Mr.
Allen figures his results from astronomy
and the book of Daniel, while Mr.. Young
calls to his aid material manifestations and
the book of Revelation.
DR.. Young is an understood, nervous
little man, with mild blue eyes and stub
by beard surrounding his face. He has a
family of ten children ranging from 3
years old to Ii, and he says that he lives
by faith alone. Certain it is that Dr.
Young receives no salary, for he is pastor
of only little mission that is located in q
store that the owners have had some diff
glass that is intended to keep out the
starcs of a curious public, DR.. Young
breaches the second coming and tells what
hearers he can gather together that we are
now living in the time that is spoken of
in the two great prophetic and mysterious
books of the Old and the New Testaments.
Before the end OF this year." says Dr.
Young, "if my figures are correct-and I
am preaching their corrsctness-Christw will
come and will take his saints, which
means only the Christians who are ready,
to heaven with him. Before the end of the
year all of the true Christians will have
been translated and taken to heaven,
Christ will make his appearance in the
clouds before the whole world, and those
who are now ready will be carried to him
alive and in full view Of the world
From that time begins three years and
half Of tribulation, and it will he to save
his saints this time of trouble that they
will be taken to him alive. This will be
the beginning Of the end, and for these
three and a half years the beast will reign
upon the earth. This will be reign of
terror. There will be wars, revolutions,
anarchy and such political, social and re-
ligious upheavals as have never been
known in the history of the world. There
will be terrible material evidences of the
time. There will be earthquakes, storms
and wonderful manifestations of the pow
er that sets the world in the heavens.
There will be false rulers and false re-
Igious leaders, and the men will go wan
aerlng OIL after false prophets, not know
ing where to go or where to turn.
But this will only be the beginning of
the end. After three years and half of
this reign of the beast and the time time
times and half of great tribulation then
will follow Judgment upon the beast. This
will be in 1899 or 1900, only four years
from now. Then will come five months
of wrath upon the beast, and Judgment
for his sin and his control of the world for
all these years, and for his absolute con-
troll during the time of great tribulation.
This will be the end, and at the close
Of the five months OF judgment upon the
beast his reign will end for LOCO years.
Christ will come back to this earth as the
king and ruler, and for l, 600 years he will
be il power. This will be the millennium
for which we have all been waiting This
will begin in 1900, and on that date all
social and political lines will be obliterat-
ed. The world will be one brotherhood,
| one family. with one language and one
| ruler. who will be Christ.
For 1000 years this will continue.
Then Will come the material end of the
world. The urgodly will be judged and
the earth as 1t now swings in the heavens
will be consumed by fire. This will be the
total destruction. to be followed by the
making of all things new, and then the
end Of all, which will be eternity with God
| and the saved"
In the PRONUNCIATION OF this peculiar
doctrine DR.. Young has issued what he
calls the Chart of Chronological Har-
mony of the Occurrences Recorded In the
| Book OF Revelation of Jesus Christ This
| chart Is intended as an aid to the study of
the book of Revelation, and it aims to
| show how the events that are mentioned
in that book rs preceding the end of the
world are now actually transporting
the Rev. j. II. Allen figures out the
| end of the world little differently from
the Rev. L. 4. Young, but Mr.. Allen is q
| little more definite, and he brings to his
aid in his calculations astronomy and
| mathematics. With a telescope Mr. Allen
says that he observes the stars and studies
their courses. and then be sits down in his
| home and figures out the results of his
| observations until he has decided that the
| end viii begin in the spring OF next year,
! and that AZ that time all Of the saints upon
4 earth and those who died in the faith will