The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-08-27
is THE MILLENNIUM NEARp
Written by Daniel p. Deshoug, Esq, Of
Pleasant Ridge. Thoughts Sug-
gested by a Dream.

Eve, in the Garden Of Eden, not
disobeyed the commands Of GodY
A dream which the writer had
several years ago, has led to the
following thoughts along this
line: Had it not been for the
disobedience of our first parents,
we now would have no deaths, no
sorrows, no doctors, no lawyers,
no editors, no mechanics,--we
would have no labor to perform
In short, we would have nothing
to DO but reach out our hands and
take and eat, for the whole world
would be a gaI den of Eden. All
persons having been born into
the world since the creation
would to-day be living and well
and there would be no undertak-
ing establishments, no cemetery
associations, nor any tombstone
peddlers Adam and his wife
would still be living, and would
lack only about eighty-eight
years of being SIX thousand years
old. Everybody else born since
the creation of Adam aud Eve
would still be living. and the pop
ulation of the world, instead of
being fifteen hundred million as
1t is to-day, would be-jnst think
what it would be, If no one had
ever died.
We are told in Holy Writ that
the Old Serpent, the Devil, was
once an Angel of Light, but that
he was dlsobedlent, and. was cast
down from his lofty position, and
from that time became the enemy
of mankind. First he persuaded
Eve to partake of the forbidden
fruit, and, in turn, she persuad-
ed Adam to do the same thing,
and thus was brought about the
train OF terrible evils consisting
IN part of wars, of pestllences, of
murders, fact of all kinds of
SINS, and the last, but not the
least Is drunkenness, for God
never made intoxicating drinks.
But the time Is coming, and is
now near at hand, when all this
will be changed. The SIX thous.
and years, which corresponds to
the six days of the week that God
labored IN making the world and
all things therein contained, aud
rested on the seventh day, is now
nearly completed, and the seventh
Thousand will correspond to the
seventh day, and will be, 1t seems
to me, the millennium, during
which time the Devil will be chain
ed for thousand years, and all
people will come forth and live
upon the earth, which will be, as
a whole, garden of Eden; and
believe that will be a par adise for
the righteous, but l fear 1t will
be a purgatory for the wicked.
All old things will be passed
away, and all things will become
new; there will be no war nor ru
mors of war; the people shall beat
their swords INTO plow shares,
and their spears into pruning
hooks, and shall know war no
more. And it is fair to presume
that at the end of that tune, the
Lord will separate the wheat
from the tares, and the tares, or
chat, he VIII burn up with un-
quenchable fire; but the wheat he
will gather into his garner. Old
things will have passed away, and
all things will have become new.
There win be new heaven and a
new earth, which will be for all
time and eternity.
Now, 1t is suppos ed by some
people that the first six thousand
years )t the world will be up
about our year nineteen hundred
and fifteen, and If that should be
so, the mlllennlal, or one thousand
years of peace, are not far distant.
Now, those are the rambling
thoughts OF one who is well ad-
vanced IN years, and 1T Is hoped
'nat II may suggest some new
thoughts and new ideas to the
minds OF thoughtful readers; and
4 not 1t is hoped that il will be
somewhat Interesting TO some
persons, at least.