Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-08-12
END or rIlE WORLD.

D,ying the past Few decades there
have been many predictions ~ the
coming VI the end OF the world both by
those who pose as scientists and those
who hold u nH religious Wow. AM
other ~ these predictions. coming this
time from tho religious wing Of these
assumed prophets. g. thus commented
on BY the Boston Herald:
THE Springfield Advcntists proclaim
that the end of the world ~ to come
with the close Of the century next year
Under the circumstances. % A. "a waste
" money 10 go on Increasing pur navy.
or % trouble Ourselves further about
settling the Philippine business. The
universal HmaHh.up win do cnsctuuly
what the recent peace conference nt
The Hague failed 20 achieve Elder
Grant says that we are now IN James,
chap. 9, and that decides ". Pay your
bills and prepare 20 meet tho cntnHtro-
pho with propricty."
The advice TO pay your bills H. good
NJ an times. 10 those who are lu debt
hut as to tho reason given In this I'M
stance. the prospective coming 81 the
end II the world It Is Just na well not
10 walt tlll acquiring q conviction that
that event IN at hand, TO settle up In
dohtcdncsa; II would be- doferrIng
matters too long altogether.
OF course. n viii not hurt the Adj
yentlata 10 be disappointed again ln the
matter " the "cnd Of the world" they
have had that experience 20 many
times. ana viii have % again ON this oc-
casion. Tho end of the world s. not
coming With the end or the nineteenth
century. This statement. we are aware.
virtually assigns the Adycntlatl who
claim otherwise 10 the ranks Of false
prophets" who. Il n said In Scripture.
win come IN the last days. but we are
not 10 blame for that. Fact To- fact: and
u people DO not wish 60 ho cinsTcd ua
false prophets they should not make
false prophecies
It IL doubtful whether people who uro
setting dates FOR the coming Of the end
Of the world really have a definite COM
ccption Of what the END d.. Certainly
our Boston contemporary has not. when
Il refers 10 II aa o universal smash-up.
The statements ~ Scripture. from
which the term "cnd N the world" n
taken. convey no such idea.
As 10 tho Adventist claim that tho
earth r. now In III" condition described
In the hfth chapter N the EplHue ~
James. We would not dispute that
many ~ the statements In that chapter
NJ precisely tho conditions now exist
ing lueh men have 'hrnped treasures
together for the last days. the 'hirr
" the lnburrrH' often IN kept back by
fraud people 'llv" IN pleasure on the
carth,' ana arc 'Wantnni' the Just are
condemned and Killed. and the 'coin-
Ing u the Lord Is nigh Hut neither
these conditions nor any Others named
In the chapter referred Co. Indicate tho
following close thorrupon Or the end NJ
the world.
M doubt, great events arc az hand,
and great changes in tho worlds ne
fairs are IMPENDING In fact the present
is witnessing the accomplishment NJ
the marvellous workings OF the last
days, forciold by Prophets NJ old and
N the present disncnan'lon. That
these Prophets Hpnkc truly Us shown by
the coming 20 pass Of their prophecies
and this evidence marks them ne IN
Hplred of the Lord. but they do not
proclaim the end OF the world 80 close
at hand nH the end of the present cen.
tury Indeed thet END referred to
In tho Scriptures, except where II re-
| lutcs To the passing OF m"I'hlA TO the