Show THE END OF THE WORLD A suii DIADY OF prophecies A correspondent of the carlisle examiner thus sums up the tha prophecies cles cies which have been current in various ages Z regarding the end of the world 1 the jews had bad an anc ancient lerit doctrine that the world will last 2000 before the law 2000 under the law and 2000 under the gospel 2 there was a time when the duration of the world was thought to be bound hound up with that of the roman empire and every comet earthquake was regarded as a portent portela of doom 8 on being asked by the bishop of salone whether the end of the world was near st agustine replied that in all probability a few years respite would be given to it i 4 from year to year however the date of the crash was put back and finally the end of the ninth century was fixed upon when there was a special expectation and dread lasting till the year 1000 which had been definitely fixed upon as the wind up of all things during that century man many y grants of estates were made to the churches and monasteries under the formula termini mundi whereas the end of the world being nigh 5 in 1179 astrologers sent letters all over the world announcing that the world would surely end in september 1186 amid storms aud and 6 in 1524 there was a great terror as john stob stonier iler iier a german seer beer had fo fore re told a universal deluge for the following i february in england france fran ce spain and italy thousands fled to the hills and a professor of divinity of aicale built himself a boat raised on four pillars when rain began to fall in february people said now it be gi ginne ginnety tb bli bil the four weeks weeks passed over well weil te 11 the astrologer says an old writer for his excuse said that in his computation he had mistaken and miscounted in their number an hundred years 7 in 1586 1686 the andress announced that in two years the world would come to an end and that immediately afterward all power would be given into the hands of the turks 8 whiston predicted the crisis in the middle of the last century 9 A frenchman al burrier Tur rier thought the antic hristian ism was born about the year 1450 it shall die about the year 1710 this may happen sooner but I 1 do not see that it can go much further than 1714 11 he fixed the miller millennium lium ilum for 1785 10 richard brothers an oracle in 1790 proclaimed that the very loud and unusual kind of thunder heard in january last was the voice of the angel mentioned in the of revelations and fixed the of august 1793 for the destruct destruction iop lop of london 11 1 write write the spirit says arft write 1 prop prophesied healed an old woman in ej suffolk bu 0 k 94 years y ears ago the high priest shall never have another christmas dinner 12 dr cumming gumming says it will come in 1867 |