Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-20
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The End of the World,


 Mr. Editor: Will people now living see the end of the world or the second ] coming of Christ The greatest and i most definite prophecy of the second | coming of our Lord is the one given | by Christ Himself and it was uttered i just before His trial and crucifixion. ] He was seated on the Mount of I! Olives and His disciples came pri- i vately to Him and asked Him: "rell ! us when shall these things be and ; what shall be the sign of Thy com- ing and of the end of the world ?"-i Matt. 24:3. The inquiry of the di- sciples involved two questloas-I first When shall these things be? Second, What shall be the sign of Thy coming and of the end of the world? Christ did give them Signs in answering this part of their inquiry every one of which was literally ful- filled, as is testified to by Josephus and othe- secular historians.
 Christ did not rebuke the disciples for asking about His second coming, neither did He tell them that they could not know anything about that l be much deception in the world He | first Of all said to them:
 1 Take heed that no man deceive you.' Then He proceeds to tell them of the signs that were to be seen be- fore His coming. There were to be wars and rumors of wars, famine, 1 earthquake and pestilence and various ] disturbances on land nd sea. Also the Gospel of the Kingdom Was 10 be preached in all the world before the coming of Christ or tie end of the | world
 There are definite signs given to ! thjs parof sit "a and ! our fathers have seen, which mark
 with absolute certainty this genera ten as the last and the one in which our Lord will surely come again.
 The signs referred to are as follows: linn edidtely after the tribalat;on
 of those days shall the sun be dark | ened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heaven
 shall be shaken 24:29.
 II The days of tribulation mentioned
 in this text are the ones Christ refer red to i1 verses 2f and 22, just be- : fore the text quoted above, He said: For then shall be great tribula- tion. such as was not since the be-
 ginning of the world to this time nc nor ever shall be-
 In a valuable work, entitled Guide to Knowledge" is the following sign "On the 18th Of May, 17S0. an uncon-
 mon darkness took place all over New England and extended to Canada
 The darkness was so great that ths people were unable to read common . print, or to tell the time Of the day b1 : their watches, or to transact ordinary business without the light of candles Many more extracts from scientist l and scholars all over the work might be giyer, but space prevents g and now if we will but remember tha : this actually happened in 1883 whei !. the stars fell about s5 years ago, an = that there are many men still Twin! e who saw it, we will perhaps appre
 ciate the words Of Christ followin, i the description of the signs H
 says: And then shall appear tn sign of the Son of man in heaven
 and then shall all the tribes of th earth mourn and they shall see tn
 Son of Man coming in the clouds (
 heaven ith power and great glory. 2 No believer in the inspiration ( e Gods Bible can doubt the fact ths
 the generation in which we are Twin