The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1907-03-28
END OF WORLD in 1914.
Only Seven Years to Prepare Says
Quincy Prophet.

Quincy Prophet.
Quincy has a modern prophet, who
rises up at the age of 80 and announces
that, after years of dilligent study, he
has clearly demonstrated through three
distinct arithmetical calculations that
the world will come to an end in
October of the year 1914. William
Durfee, a veteran carpenter, residing in
the rear of 4l9 Oak street, who has been
resident of Quincy for over half a
century, makes this startling declara-
ton, and claims that each of his three
reckonings arrives at the same conclu-
sion. This time, he asserts, fire instead
of flood will destroy every creature
with breath and life"
"The coming of the end of the world"
said Durfee, simply means the eNpira-
ton of Satan's lease of power, and that
| can prove will occur some time in
October 1914. The destruction will be
similar to the flood, except that it will
be wrought by fire, and but few will
survive the visitation of the Almighty's
power. l base all my reckonings on the
bible.
"The bible says in the twelfth verse
of the twelfth chapter of Daniel" he
continued: I" Blessed is he that waiteth
and cometh to the thousand three hun
bred and five and thirty days That
means" said the aged prophet, "that the
Savior will come at that time, and the
period of 'abomination Of desolation'
spoken of in the bible will begin.
1.-THE verse preceding says that that
number of days will ensue from the
time that the daily sacrifice shall be
taken away until the abomination that
makes desolate shall be set up His
tory relates" he says, that the daily
sacrifice was taken away with the adj
vent Of Constantine as the pope Of
Rome in the year $50, a. D. Adding to
]. 239 this 1895 days, OF years in our sys-
| TEN for reckoning, for the bible says
a thousand years is as but a day in the
sight Of the Lord we have 1874. In the
year 1874" said Durfee, "the period of
/, the abomiration of desolation was set
up. But the Jews" he said, "were
given forty years wandering in the
wilderness, and that likewise the Gen
tiles would be given similar harvest
time. Adding 40 to 1874, we get 1914
At this time the Gentiles will suffer,
ne stated, "what is predicted in Luke
PIG: AS for these things which ye be,
hold, the days will come in which there
shall not be left one stone upon another
that shall not be torn down.
"How | determine said Durfee, thai
the end Of the world will occur in the
month Of October in that year is this
We know that Christ was crucitied IL
April when he was 3d. years old. Ii he
were six months over 80 he must have
been born in October. Then is the
blessed which as it is said in eXactl,
"a thousand years. upon which my Cal
culation is based, the destruction OF thu
world must take place in October
Again, in another Of his calculation
to verify the first Durfee employ
Levitious 1928. in which the Almight,
SAYS: "Then / will walk contrary unit
you, also in fury, and /, even /, vii
chastise you seven times for your sins.
Taking, as the prophet does, 800 year
as the measure Of time employed by tn
Jews and Multiplying it by seven W
have 1920 This 1920 years, he said wi
be the period of the punishment CT tn
Jews. But he states that the punlsl
ment of the Jews, according to histor.
began in the wear COG B. G. Thus sui
tracing COG from 1920 we have resul
ing 1904, when the punishment WI
close.
In the third reckoning Durfee base
his calculation on the commanders
that "six days shalt thou labor and q
all thy work, and rest the sevent
day in the sight of the Lord, 81
days means G0O0 years from the Dirt
of Moses. Durfee asserts thu
had Moses lived until 1917 /
would have been exactly 5000 yea
old. And again adding the forty yea
harvest time for the gentiles to is:
y he obtains 1914.
e Durfee lives alone in one-roo
9 house, and at his extreme age is
Il rugged health and spends much OF h
q time studying the bible. He has demo
r strated thoroughly to his own satisfa
9 ton and warns this generation OF Il
"a cnniYtr faya tiOn