The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-02

Sometime between sunrise and noon
Wednesday, September >, Il small hand
of men, women and children hope to be
gathered into the clouds from the pave
ment of Union Square. Other groups.
they think, will be lifted up from public
places in other cities and Cop will he
seen standing under the sun. Such of
the worlds inhabitants as are not quail
fled 10y faith and prayer for the uplifting
will continue to reside on the earth until
the gradual shifting of the globe to a
new axis, which is to bring the North
Pole Immediately under the sun. They
Will be deluged and destroyed. Then
the praying faithful gathered from Union
square and elsewhere will he let down
near the North Pole where they will
dwell for thousand years in nightless
paradise. EG3
This is the belief of hundred or more
persons who sat yesterday in a long room
at No. Alb East Seventy fifth street and
listened approvingly to an exposition of
their faith by f. Stuozke, who is their
leader and teacher Nearly all are Ger
man born To most of them English is a
language in which higher thoughts can
not be expressed. They follow Julius
Stangnowski, Il German Baptist minis.
ter, who, on September ,, 1868, at
konigsberg, had II revelation, in which
he wrote in IL pamphlet that was burned
in the public square of his town the fol-
lowing year.
All the followers OF the faith have come
out of Protestant churches, and nearly
all from the Baptist Church. Their Sab
bath is Saturday; they baptize converts
in running water and only baptze adults
They live simply, read the Bible intently
and look steadily and confidently forward
20 the end of the world on September >,
1870. All are poor, and they have no
goods to give away, save those small be
longings one must have to make living
endurable.
They are Communists in n sense, living
separately, each earning his own support
and yet carrying their professed brother
hood and sisterhood to that length that
they would deny to none n share in what
they have.
Stutzke's face is pale, the skin having
the clearneSs of one who eats little ami
NAL food. His black beard has grown
long and uneven. He has not paid much
attention to his personal appearance for
long time, if, indeed it ever occupied
his thoughts. He is intent, but not en-.
thusiastic. :, e9.EgEss
he sat with his followers expounding
suppose the TRANSPORTATION you expect
does not occur on Wednesday morning?''
His dull eyes glowed. He threw his
hands up i'll excited gesture. ''Then the
Bible would have told us lie.''
rs it not possible that you have mis-
taken the date:i -
"How could it be possible that for
thirty-three years we have studied the
Bible and have searched for evidences?
We have challenged the whole Christian
world to refute us, but not one teacher
has come out o. the churches to do it.
No; it is not possible to DOUBT
" If you are not lifted into the clouds
on Wednesday will your faith in the
Bible-in God-be destroyed?''
Again the excited upraising of the
hands. 1T will occur as l tell you"
Then the man lapsed into the calm. in
tent expounder. by much living with
the word of God" he said. 1--WE have
gained power to understand il. We have
stuffed to gain the light we have, and
now there is no time for others to
study-thcy must take the word as we
give it to Them Egl
Out of multiplicity of texts from the
prophets, the gospels and Revelations he
made mosaic prophecy which establish
ed to his satisfaction the Divine mission
OF the man VINO founded the sect. He
showed, also to his own satisfaction, that
Christ was born and died on September
!, the date of Stangnowski's revelation.
BY IA variety of arithmetical combina.
tions he has reached the conclusion that
1896 is the last year of the world Here
are two of his combinations: From Gods
covenant with Abraham to Christ's COM
ing was 1896; from Christ to the end of
the world, 1876 years: Christ was on earth
30 years; from the revelation to Stang
nowski, September >, 1868, to the end
of the world is 33 years.
That the paradise of the faithful will
be located ut the North Pole, Stutzka
| maintains, without recourse to other
authority than history. The center of
| civilization has for generations, he de
clares, been moving north. 1t must 90
| further north, but the ice must be dis
| PEELED, and so the earth will change is
axis and present the pole to the sun
| New York Journal
MEASURING ROENTGEN RAYS.
| a Photometer Has Been Devised for the
New Light
a device to furnish quantitive meas.
! urements of Roentgen rays has been
| made by Mr.. Meslin, who, in .the current
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