The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-29
is The END NEAR2

be some interest manifested in the views
held by Adventists, it would be well to
correct some mistaken ideas that lately
appeared in yoIr paper. They never
prophesied in regard to the fultillment
OF prophecy. We know it cannot be far
IN the distance. In calling our attention
to what will take place when the lend :"
comes we can comprehend the impor-
tance OF the question under considera-
tion.
The end" taken in its broadest
sense, means the closing of human pro-
bation-Rev. %: IL, r. The gathering
OF the righteous-Mat.24: 80, 81. The
resurrection-I Thess. 4: is, II. Execu-
ting judgement upon the wicked
Thess. 7-l0. Purifying the earth
Ii Peter 3:10. We often hear the query:
! Gan we know when the end is near?"
After our Savior had mentioned the
signs that would precede his second adj
vent he adds: $50 likewise We, when ye
shall see all these things, know that it il
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"While we can know when it is near,
| we are not to know the day and the
hour. Matt. "a: 35. And for us to say
that he is not near, when the 'signs"
| have been fulfilled, would be virtually
saying: "My Lord delayeth his coming !;
| TO those tine Lord will come when they
are not looking for him" &c-Verses so
and 81. This would be a surprise
as when a thief stealthilv comes
along. g.-Thess. 5: l-5. Again, if
we are wholly taken up with the cares
of the world, that will come upon US
unaware-Luke q IA. In view of this
danger we are commanded to "watch -
Matt. 54: AZ. Watch the ''signs of
the times" We inquire: 'Has the
Lord given signs?' We know it would
not be the Lords way of doing, to
bring about such great event, and not
inform us in regard to it. The Lord will
do.nothing but he revealeth his secrets
unto his servants, the Prophet--Amos
5:7. So it has been whenever the Lord
has ushered in any great event Then
| we should inquire into it. The Lord
| has revealed it. Over eighteen hundred
| years ago the disciples asked the Savior
of thy coming and the end OF the
world P'-Matt. "a: 3. The Saviour did
not rebuke them for inquiring into some
| thing that was Far from their day, but
proceeded to answer their important
| questions. He warns them of being de-
| ceived in regard to the manner of that
event, accordingly to verse q, his COM
| ing is to be visible to all. Use with this
Rev. I, 80, he gives the signs 'imme-
diately after the tribulation of those
days, shall tho sun be darkened and the
moon shall not give her light, and the
stars shall fall from heaven, and the
powers of heaven shall be shaken" The
trbulation is acknowledged to be the
great tribulation of the Dark Ages, dur
ing Papal supremacy, which continued
1850 wears, or till 1898, when the Pope
was taken prisoner by General Berthier
under Napoleon. Immediately after this
the sun was darkened. Mark l3: 20,
says: "But in these days after that
tribulation, etc. The day ended 1893,
but the trhulation ended about l775, AS
a result of the Reformation. The sun
was darkened 1880, May 10, which was
after the tribnlation, and before the days
expired. Webster's dictionary edited
in 1869, speaking of the dark day, says
"There can be no reason given for the
remarkable phenomon. 1t was not an
eclipse for the moon was full the night
before. The night of the dark day the
moon was darkened; ~ she shines with
a borrowed light, she was made dark
because of the suns darkness" The
falling of the stars WAS to be the last
great sign. This was literally fulfilled
November 18th, 1888. 1t is true we
had several showers OF shooting stars,
but none ike the one which occurred in
1888. They were to fail AS describe l.
Rev 8 :l3. They did not fly at ramon
but appeared to emanatc IRON point in
the constellation Leo, near Il star called
Gamma Peoni~ in the Bend OF the sickle.
1t attracted universal attention rs no
other did. 1t was the sign spoken o..
These thrae are Gods great Signs to the
word o the END of ali things" These
Isl. ns' anl events that were to take
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