New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-01
TO BE SAVED FROM THE BURNING.
THE FOURTEEN OF THE $4,000 WHO ARE to
LIVE AFTER ALL THE REST OF THE
WORLD is DESTROYED


dispatch which printed In these columns
Yesterday revealed once more the happiness I"
those who know themselves to be created Tor great
er things than their fellows rather. the pelngs
who have the impudence 10 wear shape similar
10 theirs though they not their fellows Ihere
was a Scotchman who prayed for the salvatlon OF
himself and his wife his John and his wife us
four and no more" and there was another OF MS
countrymen who had faith in the future or nooooy
but himself and his brother, and even admitted
that there times when he was no so sure
about Tammas" These are doubtless wellnigh
record Instances OF exclusveness. Yet the people
in Texas who believe themselves TO be Of the lA'"o
who are TO escape the destruction OF the earth may
well think themselves exceptionally favored es-
necaUv as only fourteen OF the $4,000 are YET
gathered
The dispatch Of yesterday told how these fourteen
persons were living in unfertie place IN Iexas'
spending their entire time in worship and supported
bv tho product of oil wells In Ohio Ihey 1ouna
the place to stay by means OF a chart whlch one
Of them discovered That place Is TO ne saved "heh
all the rest Of the world burns One OF the fourteen
&c bringing an action against her husband FOR q
division Of the property where the oil Is, so that
enc can have her share all 10 herself for the more
convenient support Of the company which IS 10
inherit the earth. The dispatch says some other
interesting things and II leaves some equally inter-
esting ones unsaid.
For instance IT does not give the passage from
Revelation (yi a on which the number OF the per-
sons 10 be saved must be based: And heard the
rurober Of them which were sealed: and there were
sealed hundred and forty and four thousand OF
ALI the tribes Of the children OF Israel
The dispatch does say that the fourteen regard
their little hreproof spot in Texas as sacred to
themselves and that a lawyer who came there 10
get depositions about the oil property was the hrst
outsider ever admitted, but II does not say now
the rest Of the $4,000 are 10 gain ADMISSION II
the fourteen expect 10 stay there till they and
their descendants amount TO 1900 IL Is Hkely 10 ne
q considerable drain m tbs OIL wells
7, must not he understood from the prophecy ana
,ro, tb conviction Of these persons that they are
fulfilling H. that they children OF lsrael IN the
ordinary sense They are not disturbed by such
detail az the prophecy calling for children OF israel
They have named their abode Israel ana no" they
rroceed to be children Of II. Could anything be
simpler? Besides the map which was discovered
calls the place Israel
There seems 10 be an especial poetic fitness In
the fact that these persons who are TO escape the
burning OF the world should be supported while
they wait by one of the most comoustoie prooucts
~ the world Ohio Is likely 10 fare badly when the
fire gets started. and II is quite natural that the
fourteen should prefer 10 stay in Texas and let a
lawyer. who never could have one chance IN 444'OU
Of getting away from any burning that might over
take the earth anyway, attend TO the ownership OF
the oil wells FOR the little time longer that they
will be needed.
II Is sad TO learn that cloud hangs over the
colony but It IS pleasant 10 think that niue con-
sheraton logical as that IN when the iour.eeh
- ,,dr,red already ought 70 dispel It. The
.,,blo Is that they are quite sure that they are
IN the right place. They cannot be certain whether
the place marked Israel on the map Is the place
whore they are, in Texas. or another IN Arizona
That. a map should not be able 10 snow piace
o,oo-,v enough for anybody to know whether 1t was
4, -roxos or Arizona is almost sufficient TO make
one doubt its inspiration. But why should that
cause alarm? II these fourteen are OF the l44'W
who are 10 defy the fire. then they Will DEFY H.
II they are the chosen, how can they be harmed
Lot them rely on the oil wells and not trouble
.tar,s.l,a. about whether Texas or Arizona is fire
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