The Canton times., 1902-04-04
|oN MILLENNIUM.

r,;nk the Happy Time Is
Near at Hand
.rting the Heathen as
pf 20 t.s Paul, hut Says
.mon Is Hard to
Live BY.
H. millenium craze has
|, s,s e., AZ awhile, Within my rec
bobbed up three or four
! : excited ycHs good people all
\ ~ country, for good people
y o oo,ne and live in hope and
y 7 remember when Wal
|',sa a'un' Of Massachusetts, had e all
hs1and ,'Si' excited, for heswas q
man and a sincere Chris
n dDls believed all that he pro, ,,
n Nor ten years he exhortea'
NJ IT to be ready for the com,
VrS fSsrist in 1843 and even flxeo
when they would see him
,,,,n from heaven in magnlfi7-i 4
l9 u and escorted by Moses and
y J retinue Of angels. lie
$4,000 devoted converts and
I'M before the promised gay
|,rayed themselves in white I.e.
n apd sang and shouted and
until morning and then
the high hills and the tree
M the spires of the churcnes
h Hin as He neared the earth.
didn't come and it nearly
sseir hearts and they liked to
'r;sbed to death, for they had
svav all their earthly posses
came DR.. John Cummings, a
armed minister of London, VINO
4 hook on it and fixed the mil
|fypar at 1868. We were fight
IN here about that time and
had to be postponed.
.;1enium means the reign sof
mon the earth for a Thousand
when everybody will be good good
bere shall be no more death nor
IN sorrow, and there has not
/ century since His crucifixlon
tbe religious people have not
boxing for His coming. The
tans got their belief from the
n ,siies Of Daniel and from st.
and st. Peter and later on from
us and Justin Martyr and they
ted themselves with dreams OF
'that was near at hand. Some
m declared there would be no
winters, no more nights and
sting wells would run with
and milk and wine. Jerusalem
be rebuilt and the fruits OF
rth would be colossal and never
One notable writer said that
grape vine would have 10000
les and every branch 10000
and every shoot 10000 bunch
every bunch 10000 grapes and
grape would make 25 gallons of
Good gracious! how thirsty
elbow must have been. But the
mum didn't come and by and
gen, a very wise and good man,
along in the third century and
I'd that there would be no such
but that Christ's coming
be altogether spiritual. Still
ming kept on being predicted
hen the reformation of Luther
lvin came about they said that
pc was the anti-Christ and the
mum was near at hand. Next
Oliver Cromwell, who excited
lowers with a predictions Of
illennium--and so it goes on
and now it is about time for
! just as soon as we have done
off the Philippines and Eng
Is killed out all the Beers.
now all these ruminations
the millennium were provoked
at | have been reading about
'ent discoveries of oil all over
lntry. One thought brings on
and If the coming of Christ
At hand and His reign is to be
Fnal one for a thousand years
re is to be no winter or night
mess or pain or sorrow, we
need all this oil, neither for
light. And so 1 don't believe
llennium is very near. If all
0ple are to be converted and
good it will be a long time
1t is a slow process and all
y and oil that is I'M the bows
the earth will be needed. 1t
put there for nothing. Mis-
work is going ON more rap
an ever before, but it is like
n a bucket of water. We have
WV missionaries in heather
md they are aided hvs 20 f)00