The San Francisco call., 1895-12-03

planets being responsible for the increasing
mum Der OF earthquakes, has attracted at
tention throughout the State. 1t has been
Used in many pulpits as proof that the re-
cent scientific discoveries are in perfect
accord with the prophecies of the Script
ures.
Rev. J. H. Allen has studied the matter
from the biblical scholars standpoint, and
has collected very interesting array OF
facts. DR.. Allen said:
The testimony given in THE CALL by DR..
Close is strikinglv corroborative of some pre-
vious scientific discoveries The recent re-
searches of Professor Plummer in another dlrec-
ton are also to the effect that the astronomical
conditions which obtained at the time OF the
food viii recur in 1901 A. d.
These men have either Willingly or unwit-
tingly pointed out to the world one OF the most
potent ''signs of the heavens for the time or
The end of the dispensatlon, the coming of the
Lord and the establishing OF the millennium,
which is the end of civil and political govern
ment and the introduction OF divine govern
ment. 1t is true that this date is within a few
months of the time when the 5000 years
from creation Will expire, according to the
biblical and prophetic scale OF time.
l. too am prepared to tell of data that are
indisputable to prove that the end of "time"
may be expected in 1s99l4, which carries
1t into 1900.
The forecasts of Dr. Close are certainly or
time when he affirms that "the late seismic
disturbance, which extended over the Middle
and Southeastern States, yes one OF the pre-
liminary throes of Il great cstaclysm, the cul-
mination OF which may hot occur for several
years" 1t is well-proyen fact that all the
storm periods and physical disturbances of our
world are caused by planetary influences Pro-
lessor X. Hicks, who is authority on this sub
ject, says OF Venus that she is 1.-THE brightest
member, but the greatest storm-raiser IN the
family.
s'The Babylonian tablets referred to by DR..
Close as being in the British Museum are in
scribed in cuneiform writing, and once formed
q part OF the library OF Assur-bani-pal II
called Sardanapulus by the ancient Greek
writers. They are copies of Others much older,
which were written in the Semitic Babylonian
language, thus showing their connection with
the posterity OF Shem. They were evidently
written in the time of Sargon l, who was a
great Elanite King (Elam was son OF Shem)
and reigned in Akkad called Accad in Genesis
X :10) about 400 years after the food.
Each of the tablets in the British Museum
have ''calophon" at the foot, stating that Il
is copy OF the original document These tab
lets so we are told are much broken in places
and so defective III Others that in translating
them into English it became necessary to leave
blanks. Thus: "He --' spake to me thus
the sinners of life - Into the deep launch II.
cubits shall be the length measure
cubits shall be its breadth and height. A Flood
he raised. The bright, earth TO waste was
stroyed all life on face of earth" etc. These
tablets were undoubtedly written from tradi-
tOns, yet they cover all the points as recorded
in the Bible. But what is most remarkable
about them is that there is not the slightest
whisper of any date for the "Flood, yet the
astronomical "sign" is recorded.
This convinces us that they understood what
Professor Totten has been demonstrating j. e.
that all the historic events and chronological
dates given in the Bible are marked across the
wall of the sky by an astronomic event of i'm
portance; either by an eclipse, transit con-
junction or a completed time cycle that is
purely astronomical.
J. B. Dimbleby. the premier chronologist of
England, who received prize of $500 tor al
British Astronomical Society, says: at was
within the covers of the Bible that found all
the eclipses and transits and their cycles. have
never found an error in Biblical years; they
are all astronomical and OF the highest eharac-
ter, which no man can disturb without dis
lodging the earth, moon and stars from their or
bits, and are therefore capable of proof" He
has also proven, concerning the Biblical date
of the '.hood'' (17th day of the second month
or transit or eclipse or transit cycle or a cycle
within cycle that will not drop into its place
or that cannot be picked up to day with a
precision that wonld drive the spheres of
heaven out OF their course were it to be
changed.
Some shells were recently discovered in Ia
coma 400 feet below the tide flats
at is Tcckoned that over 1000 years have
elapsed since the shells were on the surface"
OF course the time given is only an approxima-
ton. The Biblical aud astronom ical time mo
declare that il was just 1927 years ago on the
9th day of November, 1885 No man put those
shells 400 feet below the surface OF the Tacoma
mud flats. Their testimony stands