Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-11-19
WORLDS LAST DAYS.
COHSUMMATION OF BIBLE
PROPHECY is NEAR.
Capt Charles A. l.. TottSu's Startling
Theory = The Noted MAthematIci
Predicts That the World VIII End In
March, 1899.

Predicts That the World VIII End In
March, 1899.
REPARE We for
!" !. !. !. ! !. !:
MII9 EIlM( the second coming
MNM OF Christ; the
LZMkIhN twelfth hour is
HWJIhf\ about to strike"
l. 7NN1771 Captain Charles
TT WN1 r. H1 A. l.. Totten, West
VT lk[JTH6J Pointer, mathema-
.NAlXdE0 tician, writer, in
WASSARH ventor and savant,
NY 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, sit means the
end OF mans haphazard, irresponsible
methods and system. The iron crown
VIII be knocked of mortal brows and
with an iron rod immortal hands will
thenceforth direct such human AFFAIRS
as may survive the crisis. II this be
not plain. God help the English under
standing"
Captain Charles A, L. Totten, who
predicts the second advent of Christ
In the year 1891. is called by the
world a dreamer, man of fine, but In
one line OF misdirected, intellect. Yet
as matter OF fact Captain Totten is
one OF the few men whose prophesies,
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 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 pre-
dictions on the Bible and mathematics.
Some have said that Totten makes
"a Bible of his calculus" 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 full
fillment 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
the fulflllment the second! Russia
and England are to dispute and per-
haps go to war over the eastern ques-
ton. 10! fulnllment, in part, the
third VIII fulfillment the fourth
come with the second advent?
Totten says of himself. his prophecy
and his work: Il 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 pos
sess, / have weighed, measured and
numbered much of its historical pro-
phetical chronology, and find 1t to be
without possible flaw. 1t is a perfect
and stupendous system; consecutive
one, and its evolution cannot have
been other than supernatural The
l year 1891 March, 1s99-is the end of
the age and the beginning of the mill
/ lennium, that is, of the seventh, or
Sabbatic, thousand years"
Then Captain Totten submits an
"ominous exegesis or chronological
sermon upon a text which deeply con-
1 cerued all former generations Of Chris
/ tians." He declares that Christ's words
as given in Luke, 81: 80, Verify, l say
| unfo this paneratinn shall NOT ma SIS
away until all be fulfilled" 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.