Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02

Pointer, mathematician, writer, lnVen-
tor and savant, says the human race
stands upon IAN ominOuS 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 "it means the end OF
mans haphazard irresponsible meth
DDS and system. The iron crown Will
be knocked off mortal brows and with
an iron rod imomrtal hands Will
thenceforth direct such human AFFAIRS
as NAV survive the crisis. If this be
NOT plain. God help the English under
standing"
Captain Charles A. l.. Totten, VINO
predicts the second advent CT Christ
In the year 1894, is called by the
world dreamer, a man of fine, but in
one line of misdirected, intellect. Yet
as a matter of fact, Captain Totten IS
one of the few men whose prophecies,
wild as they appear, are studied care
fully and approached with respect by
the scientific men of the age. They
are read and studied perhaps not with
anv shade of belief in them, but be-
cause of the depth OF the research
! which they display and of the mathe-
NAUTICAL mind, analytical almost beyond
precedent of which they give evidence
Totten's name is respected all over
Europe.
This artillery officer bases his pre-
dictions on the Bible and mathematics.
Some have said that "Totten makes a
Rible of his calculus" He made
prophecy seven years ago and said that
lust before the end there would be
military era. The Spanish-American
war, he now says, is the fulfillment OF
the prediction. There was strong
hint in the foretelling that an Anglo
Saxon people would be arrayed against
another race in war. Behold fulfill
ment the second! Russia and England
are to dispute and perhaps go to war
over the eastern question. Lo! fulfill-
ment in part, the third. Will fulfill
1nent the fourth come with the second
advent?
Totten says Of himself, his prophecy
and his work: 81 am a Christian and
am orthodox on the apostolic basis.
have studied the Bible with searching
scrutiny. Before the bar OF whatever
mathematical and logical ability l pcs
sess. | have weighed, measured and
etical chronology, and find it 70 be
without possible flaw. 1t is perfect
and stupendous system; a consecutive
one, and it's evolution cannot have been
other than supernatural. The year
S99A-March, 1S99--is the end of the
age and the beginning of the millen-
MUM, that is, of the seventh, or Sab
batic, thousand years.
HIS AUTHORITY FOR 1T.
Then Capt Totten admits an ON
inous exegesis or chronological ser
mon upon text which deeply concern
al former generations OF Chf1s-
tians." He declares that Christs
words as given in Luke. xxi, 80,
"Verily l say unto this generation shall
not pass away until all be fulfilled"
has been mistranslated. He declares
this" should be that" and the prom
ise of the Savior refers to the far fu-
ture. THAT" generation is the one
now On earth and which will view the
end newt spring. The captain says
that history has no parallel to the gen.
Grafton of which the present is the i'm
al year. NOR have the centuries a dup
licate to the one now SO near its
wane"
matical calculations are not exactly
clear to layman's mind, though the
students say study shows them to be
Z absolutely, and in this instance start
ling accurate. "A misprint may ac-
count for a seeming inaccurracy. Tot
ten says that each generation is three
score and ten years; that the fifty
eighth generation began a. m. 1891.
Al vii I'D
teaching in the temple and the gener
alton was seventeen years gone. Then
he declares that when this generation,
the eighty-fifth, shall have been SIM
ilarly gene seventeen years the end
will have been recorded as a finished
fact. "These figures" he says, ARE
ominiously dreadful and there is no
escape fror" them save under the cloak
of reckless ridicule."
Around the number 1853, according
to Captain Totten, clusters all the
chronology of scripture He goes into
this at length to clinch the statement.
lie bases the prophecy of the ending of
all things next March largely upon
the parable of the householder who
sent the laborers into his VINEYARD at
the different hours (Matthew XXX,
anu pdlu tdSu d penny nltSpSClIFS vi
the time he labored. The hours spok-
en- of by Jesus are according to Cap
tain Totten each 1873 years and a
fraction long There were twelve
hours altogether. A calculation makes
twelve by ffty-three and the fraction
1861 years and brings us to the
year of the world 5S2712. This was the
end of the twelfth hour, the prophet
says, and if one generation-that is,
the generation that shall not pass
away''-be added we have the year of
the world 5,S971a, or March, 1899 A.
d. 'FWho so is wise will ponder these
things" adds this mathematical seer.
'When human calculations fail they
do so because of our inability to catch
the smaller fish which pass through
the meshes of the mind. If We were
able to catch 1853 great fishes John,
xxi, ID the draught is ominious
enough to make us feel the nearest of
one whose advent we expect, al
though, like the apostles, We may not
dare ssk him Who are thou? 1t
is concerning these things We conjure
our race to think, for never in the his
tory of man stood Adams posterity
upon so dreadful a threshold"
WHAT THE TEXT SHOWS.