Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-23
WATCHING FOR THE end
Last Trumpet Predictions Have
Been Numerous. ::
TOUCHES DEEP SEATED SUPERSTITION
Many Have Been Deceived BY Misin.
trepretation Of seriptures--Mary
Give the Subject no Thousht-World
Haa Often Been Stirred. ~ =

trepretation of seriptures--Mary
Give the Subject no Thousht-World
Has Often Been Stirred. -
Would the trumpet of doom be heard
December 16? Good folk In places as
widely separated as Paris and Ore
gan, Oklahoma and Porto Rice as
well as throughout York county, ask
ing themselves and each. other this
question, while they searched the
heavens for the first sprinkltng OF the
rain Of fire and brimstone. Others,
however believed that the sun would
rise again that morning, and with ~ tns
cost Of living. But they are sconefs
and pessimists who took no account OF
the fact that Dec. II had been set aside
for the end of the world. ..n-l5E SIS
So fixed was the belief in Porto Rico
that parents permitted their children
to petition the schools for permission
to remain at home during the day %
that the families might not be sepa-
rated. Indians In Oklahoma, discount
ing the potency of prayer went to
sacrificing to their old gods 30 they
might be assured passage to the happy
hunting grounds Of their fathers, 2.
How the superstition started no
one seems to know. Some assign It
to the prediction made by ascientist
in a western university, who. basing
his assertion upon his knowledge that
six of the planets would be pulling. In
line against the same side Of the sun
on December IT. has issued d warning
Of great climatic disturbance-of an
electrical storm. the Hike Of which Was
never known in the world before, fol-
lowed by weather that wfli curl the
hair of a Japanese.
Others ignored the scientist, and
quote passages of Holy Writ as q
preface to a maze Of calculations TO
account for the passage OF time from
the davs of Adam straight down ssto
woodrnw WILSON Thesa last can
nrove that all the prophecies have
been fulfilled and All that time Eas
TO do now Is to press the. button and
eternity will do the rest. q ~ y .
Ends Of World 3PoeuIar 81 -
I, proha bly, : because yspe6p 6ple ,siars E.sp
tsb AFRAID .of II IN their: hearts, TIE
.uadan ana of thia world ilaS been lo.ie
80 tha ajl,u,b,aots arot,dd which frfdofs
snd srnsrst,tions Rave clustered
and nrophecies have been made since
the days when Belshazzar ruled over
Babylon. with the children OF JudeaR
a I naptiyes. and Daniel had the srt.
sionsfan his head" which 90 troubied
him IN "s',
wifi the advent OF the Christian
o,s lbe nronhecies that the world
wo,,td end within some set period or az
so,,,s f,xed time grew more numerous.
Iohn IN his first general epistle,, seems
I'd be fairly certain that the end win
come while he is still living, st. Mat
thew and st. Mark speak Of certain
s,pns which shall precede the final
dav but make II very. clear that tho
ona w,r he a very great surprise to
,,1nsl hf the world. ~
IN the ADOcalypSe the emo or Inp
,,,os,s Ia foretold and how 10 Judge or
its nsarness is outlined In Language
that seems unmistakable Before that
day Beliol. the great ruler, the king
of tf,is world, will have possession OF
thu sartb for 1882 days and at the
and NJ that time will come the last
ho;,r. e ~
Ear generations before the year 1000
,bs tshoIe Of christendom was looking
forward to that year as the time OF
the ending of the world. The monk
Adso In 954, wrote at considerable
lenkth about this matter to Gerberga,
wife be louis w. q;
BE-, Vincent Ferrer Mistaken.
Nv the middle of the fifteenth cent
tu,v some Of the great preachers were
even more explicit. st. Vincent Ferrer
travelled all over Spain and France
giving It out as a matter OF certaina and
uneduivocal knowledge in his posses
siot, that the coming Of the Antlchrist
WAS only a little while off. In some Of
his sermons he asserted it as his be-
lief that the Antichrist had already
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