The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-04-06
AWFUL THINGS
Predicted From tie Tail Of the Comet
That win Visit Us Soon.
DEATH TO ALL LIVING

UEHau 1V ALL MsA1sO
Animals, Human and Beast. Is to be
the Direful Consequences OF the
Visitation Of the Harmless Little
Wandering Star, Says an Excited
Georgia Prophet
Some chemist has declared enas
the comets tail is going to gave our
earth q slap in the face and MI GU!
atmosphere with the poisonous gas
with destructive effects upon human
and animal life.
One E. E. L. Evans. Of Thompson.
Ga who is neither an astronomer
nor a chemist. accepts the statement.
and writes TO the Atlanta Jonrna.
under a recent date concerning the
syanorer gas. and finds a speclai
n,onhecy to suit the occasion in the
New Testament Book OF Revelations.
chapter VIII. verses 10 and II. The
chapter portrays upon the grand Gel
es.;ai stage. of the universe one OF
che most rnspeakab!e and magnih-
ciently dramatic scenes that can be
imagined, thus:
And saw the seven angels which
stood before God: and to them were
given seven trumpess.
~Aud another angel cana and
stood at the altar. having censer:
and there was given TO him mach
incense that he should offer it With
the prayers Of al saints upon the
Golden altar which was before the
throne.
And the smoke Of the incense
which come with the prayers os the
saints asceaded up before Goa out
OF the angels hand
And the angel took the censor
and filed it with fre 0; the alter
and cast it into the earth: and there
we're voices, and thunderbolts. ano
hshtnings, and an earthquake.
And the seven angels which hae
the seven trulnphets prepared them
selves to sound.
Here follows an account Of tas
frighttul catas:rophes that were i'm
mediately visited upon the earth ane
its Inhabitants. q single terrible Wis!
isa,ion following the trumphet blast
The terrific calamity which the Geor
gia predictor Identifies with the slal
our earth is 70 set from the tail O.
Halley's comet follows the :rrmpe
blast OF the third angel. The sac-ee
text continues
"Aad the third angel sounded
and there fell a great star fron
heaven, burning as It were q lamp
and il fell upon the third Se-: o
the rivers and upon the founta:as o
water: and the name Of the star Il
called wormwood: and the th!rt
part Of the waters became WORM
wood. and many died OF the water,
because they were made bitter.
It is to be noted. according Il
the sacred text OF this wonderful ant
70 q. incompcehensible vision OF St
John. the beloved apostle. that TIT
sounding Of each Of the seven trum
pets Is to be the precursor OF th'
.uost srighttul occurrences. th'
seventh trumphet being followed B.
the end Of ell things earthly. aas
the grand ccnsammation Of the ages
Yet for some reason wholly his osn
the Georgia predictor has chosen 4
identify the star Wo1mwood with th
comet which We are expecting in ;
few weeks hence. He says:
The majority OF the Christia.
world believes in the Bible. and
they do. then they must believe al
OF It. OF none, and the Bible say
distinctly tha: when the third angl
blows his trumpet. Wormwood (Hal
ley's come) will destroy one-thirt
Of what is on the earth Literall.
this is true. for when the first ant
second angels blow their trumpet;
the other two thirds OF the cart!
viii be destroyed OF all living ami
Mals-
In my opinion Wormwood IS Hal
ley's comet, and it is only matte
OF time when We will come through
the tail Of it and the animal liz
win be killed on earth This May.
do not think. is the time for this (
occur because there are SO man!
things that will take place before an
imal life Is being killed. The Soutl
Pole Is yet 70 be discovered Tht
air is to oe full 0; airships: the
Eastern war to take place; the Bi
bic 20 be known in ali parts o!
the world: electricity &c De more
utilized. and when all these thing:
have come 10 pass. then we will &c
through che tail Of Ealley's Gomez
and the prophecy will be fulfilled
as we read in Revelation"
The tone Of confidence and the al,
Of assurance with which this sell.
appointed prophet predicts the mos,
dreadful catas:rophes to our earth
and to US are almost ridiculous. as
they are utterably absurt In the
course OF the celestial panorama
and the titantic drama in which the
angels Of the Lord are working his
Almighty will upon this earth Of ours
and IFS doomed Inhabitants. it is
strange that while many blazing stars
are represented as falling from heav-
en-. he should haze chosen Worm
wood" to represent the well-knowo
comet which has harmiessly visited
our skies nearly one hundred times
in the era embraced in Human his
tory. with no warrant whatever save
the guesseS OF pseydo-scientists TO