The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-09-13
THE END OF THE WORLD.
indianapolis Seventh Day Adventist
Fixes the Date Thia Time

Fixes the Date This Time.
Hartford Courant: The end OF the
world is again announced-this time
by Elder Montgomery, president OF
the indianapolis conference of the
Seventh Day Adventists. He has a
new rule about it. which he sets forth
In these words:
cannot set the year. It may be
next year, It may be five years. But
do know that 1t will come before
the death Of the last man who saw
the falling Of the stars on Nov. Ia.
1888. There are few people living
now who saw the phenomenon, and I
know that the end win come before
all Of them are gone"
The figure seems to have some
thing to do with this new rule. buf
never mind that. One rule is as good
as another when a man talks OF
something that he knows nothinm
about. Elder Montgomery says than
he does know. but this is a mere form
Of words. Neither he nor any living
man knows anything about the end
OF the world nor even what may han
pen tomorrow. He is guessing, or
conjecturing, or specializing all
the spectators are not in Wall street.
It ig the pose of all these foreseers
to say that they know, and probably
most Of them have on idea Of telling
a lie when they use the word, All
that they mean by their know is
that they are very well convinced and
that they hope TO convince other
people.
But sSpposing that Elder Montgom-
cry does know? What of IT.? Is ii
so terrible thing-this end of the
world? 1t is all bit of intellectual
conjuration, we know; but wherein
lies the horror of II? n we all went
together. suddenly and for good, that
certainly would be the squarest kind
Of deal. We ali manage to live to-
gether In a fashion--those Of us who
are still alive-and IL Is difficult to
conceive how 1t would be harder all
to die together. There would be a
certain equality about Ii that is mag
nificent. The dog and the horse. and
the wild beasts that are Gagged and
the twitterfng birds, and the patient
and busy ants. and the flowers, and
the running waters, and the great
trees, and man, who plays that he is
the master OF all these-man In his
various developments, as the dress-
maker, the saloonkeeper, the captain
OF finance. the master politician, the
teacher. the bishop and the arch
bishop, the man who struts around
pretending that he knows--to have
this whole bunch bundled or together,
with the solid earth upon which ali
OF them have struggled and striven
and labored for some millions OF
years, would be a masterpiece of
equality For once the whole COM
bination would be on one level. or
course, nothing could clear out things
In this tremendous fashion except law
that law BY virtue Of which the
whole arrangement exists and per-
petuates itself; that law which works
unseen and toward ends OF which man
knows nothing
Some people think that the end OF
the world is like a wedding or a din
ner party, for which man must nut
on his best clothes. They want to sin
little first, to steal q little; to lie
q little; to backbite a little: to wal
low In the mire little longer with
other dirty beasts like themselves
The beasts and other things that can
not speak never do that kind OF wal
lowing Man has to find one of ais
own speaking kind when he turns n
walIowing as pastima. Then. when
such persons have gone through aIl
this perhaps In strict accord with the
laws OF their being. they imagine that
they can whine themselves out ~
their responsibility, or. easier stiIl. nav
money to some Organization which
they fancy Ii Influential enough to
deliver them from punishment. The
poor fellows 40 not understand that |
their fears and anxieties right here
and now are their punishment. But
such persons are the exceptions Moat
81 " very much the most 1T ~
are on another tack. This other tack |