Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10

according to tradition, dsposing OF their
material possessions and DOMINIC their as
cens.on robes The Seventh Day Adventists
of this country and the Adventists OF Great
Britain point out that the Millerites failed
because they did not include in their esti-
mates essential parts Of the prophetic time
scheme. They say il is necessary to add
segments of time for the periods OF the
trumpets and the seven Walls of wrath
spoken of in the Book of Revelation TO ar
rive at the exact time OF the end Of the
world. These periods. according to the In
depreciation given them. interlap with the
visions OF Daniel. relating to the time since
the first coming OF Christ, and some Of
them reaching indefinitely into the mill
lennium.
Unmindful OF the injunction that "of that
day and hour knows and tracing
out their calculations with as much accu-
racy as possible. the British Adventists
arrive at the conclusion that the end will
come in 1929 or 1891. That there are diff
culties in the way is seen In the setting Of
the alternative date. The chief difficulty
lies, they say, in the effort to estimate the
length of the last segment of the final pc
riod. in which they declare the WORKOUT
world is now Keeling to its doom.
Rev. Baxter and his associates IN the
faith see in every large political movement
and the great calamties that overtake
mankind the fultillment Of prophecy. They
read their newspapers Apocalypse In hand
interpreting everyday events as so many
proofs OF their understanding of the didac-
tic and mysterious utterances of the Book
of Revelation. The political and social
history of the world, foretold by the
Rev Baxter, for the next twenty-five years
is not a cheerful one to contemplate. Tho
Adventist is by nature a pessimist and no
predicts awful calamites to fall upon the
world In the last days. Between now and
he
says due in Europe and the rest OF the
world The twenty-five states now cempos-
ing the original Roman empire are to be-
reduced to ten. The Turk Is to be eX-
PEELED from Constantinople and his domain
wrested away. France is to be the domi-
nant power of western Europe, and after
long struggle several OF the belligerent ma
tions will be left, bloodthirsty for power
and exhausted by war glaring at one an
other over their frontiers, bristling with
all the modern engines of destruction.
Then, according to the Adventists, Anti
Christ will come. He will sally forth from
his headquarters In Syria and proceed rap
idly to place the world under subsection to
his yoke. All must bow and receive the
brand 666 in their hands and foreheads or
suffer death Finally the armies of earth
will rush to the field of Armageddon. where
the curtain will fall upon the political his
tory of the race. The stone hewn out OK
the mountain without hands will COM
plete the destruction of Daniels compose
image and merge into the kingdom which
will last forever.
J
Meanwhile, according to this dire proph-
ecy the cities of earth will be shaken down
by earthquakes and destroyed by fire. I 40
Adventists see in the ruin of San Fran
cisco the beginning of the caIamities which
are to be visited upon all the great centers
of industry and trade. The righteous. 144-
600 of them, will be caught up in tho
clouds, and thousands upon thousands more
of the elect will be taken to the desert OF
Arabia near Mt. Sinai to undergo a short
probation of three years and half.
At the end of the submergence of the
world in blood and fire the millennium Is
promised when the righteous will inherit
the earth living for 600 years In peace,
plenty and the full fruition of the kingdom
of God among men. 4