The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1900-01-13
N Modern
Noah
Who Is Building
An Ark

4 n of that town, is preparing for
deuge, An angel Of the Lord
appeared to him in a dream and warned
him that before the passage of six months
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans would rise
in a mighty tidal wave and sweep over the
United States, wiping out these United
States of America, and leaving no vestige
OF our present civilization save heap of
shapeless ruins. The sins of the fathers
will be visited upon the children of the
present generation and there will be weep
ing and wailing in Sodom,
Stewart was instructed by his vision to
build on the hills outside of New Haven,
five miles from the water, a small yacht
which would hold twenty or thirty of the
faithful for a ten or twenty day voyage
over the rising floods. These he will
gather together few days before the break
ing of the storm so that they may at once
enter the modern ark and be saved to re-
people this vast land when the waters SUBJ
side to their normal position. The little
for to Others in the dream will appear an
angel telling them to prepare in other parts
OF the country for the greet day of reckon
ing. They, too, will be called to enter the
new land of promise and build upa new
civilization, which shall be free from the
evils of our present one.
AS to the fate of Europe, Stewart has
nothing to Fay. But whether it stands or
falls mighty regeneration will be effected
there, as here, and an earthly paradise will
spring up upon the ruins Of our present
wickedness.
This is what he prophesies:
81 believe that the wick edness which has
made the United States degenerate morally
will assuredly be punished. / am positive
that the Almighty will roll the water of
the Atlantic and the Pacific upon this
broad country and that every acre of land
will be completely inundated. Even the
highest peaks of the Rocky Mountains will
go under water and the flood will last for
many days. | cannot say how many, but
do think it will be as long as the first
flood in the days of Noah. l have been
sure OF this ever since last summer when
l had dream, in which Christ appeared to
me in vision aud told me that the sins Of
the people would be wiped out by flood
and that only few OF the purest-minded
people would be saved, He commanded
me TO build large boat, capable Of accom-
modating twenty people, and said that
others of the faithful over the land would
would be some people saved from the flood
to repopulate the land.
$50 am building my boat. l do not
expect the flood until next summer, and
by that time will be prepared for it, The
boat will be rather small quarters for a
score Of people with provisions to keep
them alive during the flood, but we shall
take with us only condensed meats and
food sufficient to last the necessary ten
days. When the waters subside am sure
that we shall be provided for by the same
power which will save us from the fate in
store for all the ungodly of Connecticut
and the country.
"My boat will be a plain sloop yacht,
45 feet long, with one mast and sail, and
it will have small cabin. ! am building
it like any other yacht. l thought first Of
shaping it like Noah's ark, but concluded
that a modern form would be more conven-
lent. 1t can be handled better and easier
81 have ted all my friends in the neigh
borh0Cd Of the coming flood when they
asked me what intended to do with boat
five miles from Long Island Sound, and |
have explained my mission to them, but
they have laughed at me. They do not
believe that the ocean will flood the earth.
But take my word for it, those whom the
Lord intends to save will be near me and
the boat whe: the waters rise, and the
Lord will direct them to get on board my
ark.
81 think the deluge will come next sum
mer, in the driest part OF the season, when
crops have been all dried up and the whole
land fears q hard winter. The dry season
next summer will be the worst in fifty
years. and all kinds OF vegetables will be
killed by the suns rays. Then the deluge
will come, and in ten days that the land is
under water the vegetation will blossom
out anew and the ark in which we have
been saved will settle down upon a fertile
land, almost depopuated, it is true, but
one which we and our generations after
wards will in time repopulate. Our cities
will be washed away by the mighty rush
OF waters and only ruins left where once
proud cities stood"
Stewart is a man of 60 years OF age, who
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