The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-21
SAYS IT'S ALL OVER.
Professor Totten Thinks the World
VIII Wind Up Next March.

Christ; the twelfth hour is about to strike"
Captain Charles Il. l.. Totten. West
Pointer, mathematician, writer. inventor
and savant. says the human race stands
upon IAN omnous threshold and that March
next will witness the second advent of the
Lord which, to ordinary intellects. means
the end of the world. In the fullness of
truth, he continues sit means the end of
mans haphazard. irresponsible methods and
system. The iron crown will be knocked
off mortal brows and with an iron rod i'm
mortal hands will thenceforth direct such
human affairs as may survive the crisis If
this be not plain, God help the English I'M
derstanding."
Captain Charles A L. Totten who pre-
diets the second advent of Christ i'm the
year 1ss9h, is called by the world a dream
er, a man of fine, but in one line of mis-
directed intellect. Yet as matter of fact
Captain Totten is one of the few men,
whose prophecies, wild as they appear, are
studied carefully and approached with re-
spect by the scientific men of the age They
are read and studied perhaps not with any
shade of belief in them, but because of the
depth of the research which they display
and of the mathematical mind. analytical
almost beyond precedent, of which they
give evidence. Totten's name is respected
all over Europe
This artillery officer bases his predictions
on the Bible and mathematics. Some have
said that "TOtten makes a Bible of his call
culus." He made a prophecy seven years
ago and said that just before the end there
would be military era The Spanish
American war, he now says, is the fulfill
ment of the prediction There was a strong
hint in the foretelling that an Anglo Saxon
people would be arrayed against another
race in war. Behold fulflIment the second
Russia and England are to dispute and per-
haps go to war over the Eastern question
Lo. fulillment. in part, the third, win
fulhllment the fourth come with the second
advent?
Totten says of himself, his prophecy and
his work Il am Christian. and am ortho-
dox on the apostolic basis. | have studied
the Bible with searching scrutiny. Before
the bar of whatever mathematical and log
ical ability possess ! have weighed, meas
ured and numbered much of its historical
prophetical chronology, and find it to be
without possible flaw 1t is a perfect and
stupendous system; a consecutive one and
its evolution cannot have been other than
supernatural. The year 1S9914-March 1899
is the end of the age and the beginning of
the millennium, that is, of the seventh, or
Sabbatic thousand years."
Then Captain Totten submits an ''omin-
Gus exegesis or chronological sermon upon
a text which deeply concerned all former
generations of Christians - He declares
that Christ's words as given in Luke xxi.
81 Verify | say unto you, this generation
has been mistranslated He declares this
should be that and the promise of the
Savior refers to the far future That"
generation is the one now on earth and
which will view the end next spring. The
captain says that history has no parallel to
the generation of which the present is the
final year, nor have the centuries a du-
plicate to the one now so near its wane."
All Of this modern prophets mathematical
calculations are rot exactly clear to a lay
mans mind though the students say study
shows them to be absolutely and in this
instance Startlingly accurate. A miSprint
may account fer a seeming inaccuracy.
Totten says that each generation is three
score and ten years; that the fifty-eighth
generation began A NJ. 1891. AT this time
the Savior was lad teaching in the tenn
pie and the generation was seventeen years
gone. Then he declares that when this
generation, the eighty-fifth, shall have been
similarly gone seventeen years the end will
These figures, he says, ARE omnously
dreadful and there is no escape from them
save under the cloak of reckless ridicule.'
Around the number 1853. according to Capt.
Totten. clusters all the chronology of Scrip
ture. He goes into this at length to cnch
the statement. Captain Totten fixes each
of immense interest to Christianity. He
says: THE third hour. 3x153, equals 459, the
year Rome told Britain to for herself.
The SaXons and GOths were converted when
the fourth hoEr struck. In the parable the
Savior skips two hours and Captain Tot
ten says it is no wonder that he did so,
for the times taken up by those hours
years. We're exceeding evil. AT the sixth
hour, when the householder brought in more
rounded out our race. The Savior, the
military prophet believes. did right in pas
sing over the seventh and eighth Bible into
our own tongue. The NOrsemen were con-
verified Christianity
came into England and hours. the time of
the dismal middle ages The ninth hour
Knox, Huss and Jerome of Prague hear its
tones. The English reformation 'T daw1'n~.
At the close Of this hour we find Luther,
Iyndall and MelancthOn
4>otnlng is heard of the tenth hour in the
Savlors prophetic parable and 1T was well
left urmentioned. for it was the age of
honest laborers into the vineyard. "as the
Pilgrims and the Puritans prove. to all
was given to the world the Bible of King
James Captain Totten says that the hap
pening of these things so vital to the world
and to Christians at the exact periods of
the hours is a stubborn fact that ridicule
cannot shake.
The twelfth hour has struck; now it is
concerns this generation It means the sec
ond advent. The years from 1892 to 1899 are
loaded with the bosom of Jehovahs judg-
ment. Verify the sword now hangs above
us by the last unraveling thread
1t is necessary. in order to get the ex-
act basis of Captain Tottens predictions,
to read the scriptural references carefully.
When st. Peter drew the 153 fishes to land
the Lord was present. 1t was after the
crucifiXion and resurrection and none dared
say, Who art thou?' 1t is to this fact
and to the number Of the fishes which is
given so specifically as lone hundred and
fifty and three" that is owing the state
ment made by Captain Totten that while
the draught of 1913 fishes made the disciples
feel the Lord was near the elucidation of
the parable and the certain fixing of the
hour as 153 years should make us feel now
beyond a peradventure that the second COM
ing is at hand.
The parable of the household is one of the
least foundations upon which Captain Tot
ten rests his prophecies. IT was chosen for
illustration because it is simple. He covers
pages with calculations automatically
perfect to a hair. all based on passages of
Scripture and all of which unerringly as
far as figures go tend to show that the
world will face its Redeemer before Easter
of next year.