Putnam patriot., 1910-05-13
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HalIey,s Comet Creates Great Fear.


 Eight things n comet always brings. Wind famine plague and death to kings Nar,earlhquakes, floods and dire things
 This old jingle was made in Germa. ny In ISIS, but the human fear of things mysterious produces the same alarm today on the great mass of bu- manity. Says the New York Tribune: "Poets, priests, philosophers and mon. sTchs have aii believed and circulated tae-e celestial scandals-from the days of Sedom and Gomorrnh down
 Scientists and Christian ministers are devoting great deal of argument to show that the present comet, like all former ones, can cause no injury to the earth or its inhabitants. No doubt lat this Is true. But there are theHs- Ids of Christian ministers who have W ,rned the world for some sixty years that the doom ot the present order of earthly things, as predicted by Christ and his Apostles, is impending, and Is to oe eonsummated by fire, and instead of regarding such catastrophe with fear and anxiety, they rejoice tn it's an ticapation, as have the saints in all ages.
 Oae of these Christian ministers Is General Ballington Booth, Commander in Chief of the Salvation army, as the Tribune says, "thst kindly disposed old man, ]" recently said to great meet ing in London.
 "We are this year rapidly approach ias the end of all things with similar results, but far surpassing in horrors, any disaster that has ever gone before.
 "All things will bc wound up. Re sides deiuge Of water sweeping parts ot the world and it's inhabitants, there will be fierce destruction by fire for oshers.n
 The Tribune adds: "To help matters . ong certain newspapers have dug up d mass of semi scientific mis-informa- ton describing how If the earth were hit hy a comet it would blow up like itfeeraekef, burn like pinwheel and tlattcn out like a squashed straw berry. Mankind was also assured that II The comet got within twenty million miles et as il would raise tidal wave eleven thousand feet high, which would pall up The oceans hv the roots, sweep the glabe and dtoMn all it's inhabitants except those on the tops of the Alps, tae Rockies, tAe Andes and the nima- lasas
 This k sfue. These sensational sto- rles eeneoeGed 10 se.i newspapers are nisehievtous lhey disturb The minds og human beings, without warrant. Not so the Blblc warnings of the ins- pending deoaA ol the world, a> General Booth ssee isFeS it is 10 incite men to escape being involved in the impend- lag catastrophe. As Peter ssss tehap, Ill. ys, Il, l--4d letter.. "Seesng then that al these things shall ee dissolved what manner og persons ought ye 10 oe In ali holy conversation and goillness, Looking for and hassssg sas eoastss9 of the day of Gsd. wherein the heavens osing on lire shall he dissolved and Inc elements shall melt withdersen, heats"
 Christians should, therefore, rejoice instead of being dismsyed when they hear what Christ and hts Apostles de- clsrea about the great consammaiioa which is the tiue they are to receive . crown of life. Hut they are warned te put no trust in human specoiat,ons as 10 the event, for hs is to te s'cosne in an hour ye think not" and uncxpct- edly, to the joy of all his children from Able te the let nnlus-