The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-08-12

Dly be during the greatest neats OF tne
arctic summer, when the glaciers move
more rapidly. This will be about the
end of June or some time in July or
August, according to the prevailing
temperature of that year. The sun,
perhaps at its zenith, will suddenly
appear to fall through the sky and in
moment, instead of broad, cheerful
sunlight, there will be darkness of
night, lighted only by the twinkling
of stars.
The danger to the central region Of
this continent is from the fact that
there must necessarily be back wave
to the glacial wave, and that back
wave will carry with it the glaciers of
Western Greenland, belt of 1900
miles in length, with the greatest
glaciers north of the equator. At the
same time there will be an immense
wave poured through Hudson Bay in
to the Winnepeg and Lake Superior
regions, including Lake Michigan.
It's detrius will form great gravel and
bowlder dixie, separating Lake Huron
from Lakes Superior and Michigan,
and the prairie region will become the
bed of new Caspian.
So fearful will be the shock from
these cataclysmal waves that much
water will be thrown into space, and
will thus become part of the cosmic
rubbish which forms what is apparent
to us as zodiacal light. From time
to time these odds and ends of matter
swept around by the vortex caused by
the earth movement in its orbit
come in collision with each other, and
are Immediately precipitated to the
the surface of the earth as meteorites,
geode, and huge hail. The celestial
hail is a mingliDg of ice crosses, but
this cosmic hail is a genuine geode of
ice, evidently frozen in space, and ut
terly dissimilar to anything of the
kind on earth.
Another theory that has been pro-
pounded starts with the proposition
that the earth is not hollow, with
molten interior and thin outside
crust twenty miles or more thick, but
is solid to the core. Accordingly its
destruction is an impossibility. There
is an unchaugeable law in the universe
to which all things must conform.
Whoever studies the astronomy of our
solar system must readily see that our
sun, earth, and other major planets
are in exact harmony with the uni
versal physical laws, and therefore
eternal existence of these bodies is
assured. Instead Of our globe being
destroyed, all the evidence indicates
that it will live and grow forever, and
in time become great sun, the CEN
tre of solar system.
But the people of the earth, all ami
NAL life, have certainly many times
been destroyed, or nearly so, leaving
only few from whom the earth has
again and again been repeopled by
man and the lower animals. The
lend of the world" then is term
used in reference to its Inhabitants,
and not in reference to the globe on
which We live.
In geology are found the only sci
entiic evidences Of the great cata-
clysms which have repeatedly and sud
denly destroyed animal and vegetable
life. These evidences are indisputa-
BILE and constitute positive proof, but
in the measurement of time by years
we have no knowledge as to when
these events occurred. They are sep
arated by unknown periods that may
have extended over 5000 or 1,0OO,-
900 years. But we have absolutely
no data on which to base any theory
as to the periodic recurrence of these
catastrophes. So this argument leaves
the end of the world, or more strictly
speaking, the end of life upon it,
quite beyond the range Of prediction
or even speculation.
Many dates have been fixed for the
world in modern times. Some Of the
most noteworthy have been l7O4 by
Cardinal Nicholas de Cusa; 1857 by
Swedenbcrg; 1886 by johann Albrecht
Bengel; 1S43 by William Miller, the
first Adventist; 1866 by DR.. John
Cumming, the distinguished Scoth di-
vine, and 1881 by Mother Shipton,
who declared:
The world unto an end ahall come
Iu eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
In France and Germany popular be
lief fixed the destruction of the world
in the one thousandth year after
Christ. So general was the confidence
in this date that for many years land
was left uncultivated and a general
famine ensued. Charters began with
these words: GAS the world is now
drawing to its close" Kings and
mobiles gave up tteir estates, and
Robert of France, son Of Hugh Capet,
entered monastery at St. Denis to
prepare for the end. At Limoges
there was an assembly of princes no.
bles and knights, wi proclaimed
God true, and solemnly bound
themselves to abstain from fueds, to
keep the peace and to help the op-
pressed. Another by pothesis of early
times was based upon the Scriptural
assertion that with God one 'ey is
equal to thousand years. Ina
as God labored six days in creating
the earth, the earth must labor six
thousand years before its day of rest
shall come. That would bring the end
of the world in A. NJ. 5000 or A. D.
1896, upon the supposition that that
the earth was created 1904 years be-
fore Christ.
In 1857 the Bavarian Allgemeine
Zeitung published Bavarian hermit S
prediction of events for the rest of the
century. In this prophecy the rise Of
Napoleon III, the Austro-Prussian
war, the Franco-Prussian war, and the
Paris Cummune are definitely de-
scribed. The hermit said that before
the end of the century Germany would
have three Emperors in one year,
which We all know is just what hap
peued. He was sure that during the
century one President of the United
States would be assassinated, whereas
the record has already surpassed him
by one.