The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-04-19

That portion of the United stare
lying south of a line drawn Ioil III
southwest corner of Connecticut TO IN
city of Ell Paso. in Texas, narrowN
escaped a frightful catastrophe las
week More than that. there is
chance that in the coming week IN
prophecy that this portion OF I'M
United States. with western Europ'
and western Asia, will be submerged
miles deep by the waters of two oceans
may be fulfilled.
The twentieth century will dawn or
the 18th OF. December 1901" writes Dr.
George H. Bean, M. D., in his British
Chart for Reckoning Time" This vii
be the 1st of January, 1901, correcte,
time-that is to say, on April 10, 1902
And between April 8 and that date
western Europe. western Asia, and that
portion of the United States Of America
lying south of a line connecting the
southwest corner of Connecticut with
FL Faso, Tex, will be swallowed by the
ocean,"
By devious ways through many null
Implications, subtractions and divisions
by scripture texts, and by quotations
from the worlds astronomers, DR.. Bean
arrived at this prophecy, which has
only this morning Saturday, April 49,.
in which to make good" His chief
physical reason for this overwhelming
of so much geography is based upon
the fact that in the Antarctic circle are
such unreasonable fields of ice so out
Of proportionate weight with the Arc
tic circle, that they and the forces of
gravitation of the planets swinging to
the south of the equator must force the
earth to assume a new center of gray
ity. 1t is in changing this position that
a 70 ct Inc Of
three continents.
Incidental to all of this. TOO. DR.. Bean
promulgates a new calendar having
thirteen months of twenty-eight days
EACH and introducing a new month,
Ida between April and May of the
old calendar, thus accounting for 364
days for each year
ALL WORLD TO BE FLOODED.
But it is TO Holdings and the sweep
of reckless seas which DR.. Bean most
confines himself, and that all lands
now inhabited one day will be sub
merged again. as it has been before. IS
one of his strongest convictions Hugh
Miller is quoted to show the passing OF
two great geological periods-the Cam
brian and the Silurian-before the COM
ing of the coal measures: THE fossil
remains of the true coal measures are
ghany mountains as in New Holland.
India, southern Africa, the neighbor-
hood of Newcastle, and the vicinity of
Edinhurg."
Having proved that in ages past seas
have overwhelmed portions Of the
earth, while other portions have risen
to mountain peaks, DR.. Bean quotes
scripture to his purpose. From Daniel
xii, 8. and 8, for instance:
How long shall it be to the end Of
these wonders?
1T shall be for time times and a
half
And he said. Go thy way. Daniel;
for the words are closed up and sealed
till the time of the end
time" Dr. Bean explains. is 9. 600
revolutions of the world around the
sun. or $500 solar years. In the light
of this he says
Half time measures the years
from Adam to the deluge: q time from
the deluge to Isaiah and from Isaiah
to the close of the current year. there
fore measure of the years from Adam
to the LIST of January, 1901 corrected
tlme). consists of time, times and a
haf. On that day western Europe and
western Asia will be submerged"
Again. quoting from st. Mark xiii II
and 10, he says:
But when you shall see the abomi- !
nation of desolation spoken of by Dan
lei, the prophet. standing where it
ought not Qet him that readeth under
stand), then let them that be in Judea
flee to the mountains
For in those days shall be affiiction.
such as was not from the beginning of
the creation, which God created until
this time, neither shall be-
FROM GALVESTON
FLOOD
With reference to "the prophet.
standing where it ought not" the doc
tor says:
In Galveston, Tex, during the storm
ana TIDAL wave Of Sept. s, 1900, a, cross,
with representation of Jesus cruel