The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-04-13
AS IN CHRLSTS TIME.

position they were at the time of the
cruci6xion of Christ, on Good Friday
yesterday, presents the following:
The current lunar year is one of the
most important ones upon the circle,
from both scientific and popular stand
points. Its true first of Tishri seems to
have fallen upon August so, 1894. The
moon that was then new went full into
an eclipse on September Is, 1894. The
first contact of this latter eclipse took
place just were Moses crossed the Red
Sea, $3.50 years before. The day follow
ing the Hebrews, whose modern calen-
dar, like that of the current Christian
one. is displaced by one year, one month,
and one day from it's correct place, be-
ing their present civil year on October 1,
1894, right out of this eclipse, that being
the origin of their New Years day of
1854 A. M.
On the succeeding November 10th
occurred the last transit OF Mercury that
this century shall see. By reversing
this transit according to its own cycles,
we can establish the astronomical accu-
IACy VI LuO 1lICIdl WCOA IClOLICo W Ill
the first chapter of Genesis. We mean
this, whether it be regarded as week
of cycles, or as literal fact of seven
normal days. The present moon is that
of true Nisan, and was lately March
10th) eclipsed upon its fourteenth or
fifteenth day. 1t will, in turn, eclipse
the sun upon the very middle of the
Atlantic ocean. Now, this eclipse,
which marks the middle of the current
Nissan, is just III days (half of 364) from
the Red Sea eclipse, with which it's
month of Tishri ended. Holding to
their constant displacement, of month
within the years, the modern Hebrews
commence their Nissan on the next day,
March 26th, and the modern church
calendar, also adhering approximately
to the same moon and displacement for
the determination of their so-called
EASTER" will place the latter upon
April 14th by virtue of the arbitrary
Nicene rule.
In the meantime the most important
anniversary known to chronology slips
by as, not, indeed, uncelebrated, for a
very minor fact has brought it into local
prominence, but entirely unkept and
unhonored among all men for that
which shall make it forever unique
throughout the ages. refer to the 18th
of March, now celebrated as st. Pat
rick's day.
The grander fact, so entirely lost
sight of, SO eclipsed by the minor one,
which has usurped its place, is that the
cruclfixion of Jesus Christ really took
place upon the Thursday, March 18th,
% A. D., which was the IA of Nissan in
that particular year.
How strange a commentary is this
upon the accuracy of human neurology,
that the death of a minor saint, and one
whose date is by no means certain,
should be assigned to March 18th, while
he who actually died thereon, and to
whom we owe all of real Christianity,
has, by virtue of the arbitrarily shifting
Nissan rule of Good Friday, no actual
date at all upon his epitaph. Yet it is
in keeping with the story of one who in
his earthly life was without place
whereon to lay his head, and after all is
not dead, but alive again.
So today is the solar anniversary oI
the crucifxion, which occurred exactly
1866 Julian years ago. This is demon.
strated fact, which has been fully estab-
lished by VIM. M. Page in his New
Light From the Old Eclipses;" by II
Grafton Guinness, in his 'Approachine
End of the Age,'' and by perhaps q
score of other able scholars, whose rep.
utations are fully established and whose
labors as a co-disciple 1 have merely
studied and verified.
AS to the actual chronology and nee.
rology of the Savior's life, am satisfied
with the evidence that he was conceived
at the spring equinox of 749 A. U. c..
was born at the winter solstice of 756 A
U. c., was found asking questions of the
doctors at the age of II in the spring o
10 A. D., was baptized on January 8, 2S
A. D., fortnight after he was 80 years
old lin literal fulfllment of Daniel tx "a
25): that he had but short avocatior
of just sixty-two weeks (434 days) there
after, or, allowing forty days for the viii
derness and lunar month of rest there
after, that he had in all but brief 365
day (solar year) ministry, dating from
the first miracle at Cana of Galilee, bu
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