The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

by ffty-three and the. fraction 1881
years and brings US to the year Of the
twelfth hour, the prophet says. and If one
generadon-that is, the generation that
the year of the world 5s971a, or. March.
1899 A: p. Who 50 is wise will ponder
When human calculations fail they do
50 because of our inability to catch the
meshes of the mind. If we are able to
G1sb If' o5i56e aGoIh ~ make M
expect, although, ike the apostles, we
1t is concerning these things we eonjure
of man stood Adams rosteritv upon so
dreadful a threshold"
What the Text Shows.
A reference to the chapter and verse of
mon Peter drew the net to the land at
the Savior'S command there were 153 great
fish in it. After saying that in the house
holder parable mentioned is 1853 years and
a fraction long, Captain TOtten says that
one-nIp6h OF the 5,i hrst houT was up a the
and that during the remainder the New
hour of the parable in which the house
holder vent cut out to hire laboTers into his
second hour without mentioning it, but the
third sees the householder going out and
hiring more workmen. Captain Totem
fixes each hour the time of some his
torical event of immense interest to Chris
equals 459, the year Rome told Britain to
were converted when the fourth hour
struck. In the parable the Savior skips
two hours, and Captain TOtten says 1t is
no wonder that he did so. for the times
taken up by those hours years. were ex-
ceedtng evil. At the sixth hour, when
the householder brought in more labor
ers, ALFRED the Great translated the BIZ
were converted to Christianity and in later
years came into England and rounded out
our race" The Savior, the military pro
phet believes, did right in passing over the
seventh and eighth hours, the time of the
is told off and Wyckliffe, the morning star,
Knox, Huss and Jerome of Prague, hear
its tones. The English reformation is
dawning. At the close of this hour we
find Luther, Tyndan and Melancthon.
Nothing is heard of the tenth hour in
the Savior's prophetic parable and 1T was
well left qnmentioned; for it was the age
OF backSliders' The eleventh hour brought
honest labOrers into the vineyard, las the
pilgrims and the Puritans prove" to all
hour was given to the world the Bible OF
the happening Of these things SO vital to
periods of the hours is a stubborn fact
that ridicule cannot shake.
The twelfth hour has struck; now 1t is
eventide and a far more striking parable
concerns this generation- It means the
second advent. The years from 1892 to
1SsR are lGadef With the P hes Of Jeh0
hangs above us by the last unraveling
It is necessary. in order to get the exact
basis of Captain Totten's predictions, to
IedQ the ScTlpLuTal 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?" It is to this
fact and to the number of fishes which is
given so specifically as zone hundred and
fifty-three," that IS owing the statement
made by Captain Totten that while the
draught of 1873 fishes made the disciples
feel the Lord was near, the elucfdatfon OF
the parable and the certain fixing of the
hour 1873 years should make US feel now
beyond a peradventure that the second
coming is at hand.
The parable of the householder is one
of the least foundations upon which Cap
tain Totten rests his prophecies. It was
chosen for illustration because It is sim
Pile He covers pages with calcula tons.
mathemat ically perfect to a hair, all based
on passages of scripture and all of which
unerfingly, as far al figures go. tend to
show that the world will face its Redeemer
before Easter of next year.