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Show revelations are termed old 'bogey' CHICAGO. Nov. T. Belief that the world would end in a cataclysm by the hand of God was ternfed as "old bogev" that had caused unreal and despair by Dr. Shirley Jackson Case of the Chicago divinity school at the University of Chicago. Chi-cago. He spoke in explanation of the New Testament's Book of Revelations, which he said was the only scriptural basis for the generally accepted belief In a final world catastrophe. LMspel the "bogey." he believed, and vast social and material changes might follow. "Fear of the end of the world In the last 2000 years has been ,a palsy on the human spirit.' said Dr. Case. "It has made millions of human beings exist In a ?ort of 'wh:U's t'.-.e use? frame of mind, and it has been of no good to Christianity Ot anything else." Dr. Case explained that the revelations of the New Testament were written by John of Patmos at a time when he and fellow Christians were refugees from Roman Ro-man persecution, and that his writings were intended only to predict the fall of the Roman empire. |