Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 205, 1 Iune 1891 — A RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. [ARTICLE]

A RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.

There h a serious division in the! sanctum of Ka Leo It is as it i v?ere a house divided against it- ; sclf. Mr. Bush that the millennium, the end of the world, or bome sort of cataelflsni I have not bcen able rightly to determine wnat, is hanging over the earth and the inhabitants thereof, and that something is going to presently drop; as certainly set forth in holy writ, by symbols of strange beasts aiul creeping things with an uneommo;» numbfr of heads and | eyes, horns and tails, coifiposed of : | brass and stone «ind clay and' divers building materials not usual ii» tiie animal economy. Mr. Bush proves from Daniel and Kuvelations t-hut tho adventists know! ail about it and that the<> rest of| the sane communky are suffering j from chronic stupidity. Now rccently a gentleman who had been fcherefore suppo=e<l to be ofeautid mind, has arisen awollen with inspiration and given the _crank business a great l>oom, by figuring out that the second advent of Jesus cannot be put off later than A. D. coming. The American papers have given him a great deal «f space, so we may be excused for loaving owr'

!/...■ / . . * regular cmploynient of firinp; the imnietry, to exauiine his prrte;itions in a f«w short paragnipns. Lit;utenant Totten is professor of mathematicff in' Shcflickl Sfient'»f!e Behool at Y&le. who hi?s been nlways'a beli9vor 'in thb. Bibie heing in.*pirc<l hy (iod hiniHclf It ihus seoms that ho is a professonai fighU;r a n]athmuatical prodigy and an experrenced believcr in fish st«ries.. H« found, his great prophecy wholly on lhe first part of thc twentieth cha?>ter of Matthcw in whieh it is re?latcd that an owncr of a vineyard wcnt out af diiTerent hours of the d«iy and hired hil)orers; hut inslead of payins;' thcm pro mtn gavc eaeh one the s;rmc %"any oiie not bcnt on oecult business it sooims plai:i that this parab!c teachcs tliat all wlio eoiFiC to Oi)rist\s ehunli wil 1 be savcd v/]ictht?r tl\cyeonie car]y or late, yonng or old; if tlicy-. rcpcni and bolicvc tl.vcir r< i \vurd \vi 11 \xthe snnv>. ]>ut LieM. r [Y>Uen has heen ablc to lind Ihe W(>rld ; s histor} T aiul futnr<\ futo in it hy ata inv.*?lic to tl e various hours at wlu/'li tho inaster went out to crnploy \vorkers. īn ordcr to make it mean : o uiueh he sr«ys that eaeh ho\irs ' repres£iits 153 nnd a fractlon yo:irs. Now, where dces tlns ■•wonderful man lind that an iio'.U' Ui(fans 133 vears ? ..

In John XX, 1-10. it i.s rccord- | cd tl)Jit Christ nppeared to his | disciplcs while th<\v were fishi?\g and thcy- canght . a heavy net uill of-fish and when t.h.e.y went ashore , they found some fish cooking over a firc; and on counting thcy fonnd that thcy had taken 1 ō:> iislies, and it wan a miracie 1 liat 1 lie net was nct broken. Out of this fish storv Lieutcnant Totten gets his 153 and a fraction \ T cars and joins it to the vineyard\ fable in another book altogether and makes oiit thnt Clirist must arrive on his second advent before 1891U. Where h? gets the fraction we do know r unless froni the fishes found brōiling on the coals. The Biblc <ioes not say that eaeh fish represented a V6ar of the I world's history nor that the whole; catch 6f fishes ment an hour in j the vineyard. We >don't see why I ,thcy should. But the inspired | mathematician at Yale has worked |itout. By the same process Ignatius Donnelly, has found a whole Baeonian romance in Shakespere's plavs. Other scholars with big cracked craniums, have found the history of the world<, all scientific discoveries up to date, and dire proph«xjies of things to in the great pyramid in TEgypt. There is really no limit to the ingenuity of cranks, F«jr my own privaie part I do not beheve that God ever revealed anything importance to Daniel nor to any. other greasy old Israelite away haek in the dark ages before tho invcntion of soap. | If Gml wish the inhabitants of i the earth to know anything partii cular he would adopt some tncthod that would produce the desifed resuit. He might stick a poster on the moou or advertise Isy Author»ty. I). L. Ht\\Ts>iA.\\ [Oiir contributor is evidently not a Deist, and uas jnot searcheil the vS,Tiptures, but ali skeptics have

a r:otit>n bnsetl on Bome gue?s work. | VV*ith such we canript be divided, for he who is against us k ef. nnot! be with us. There is a vast diiTorcincc between they of the house'nold of faith and they who are ailoat on the broad sea of aUu'iani wilhoui nny ground of hope, and llke thc r.? at righteous Noa. nre iihv;ivs rcady to cry formercy when ston»e impcnding (ioom is about to overt;d:c th»*in. It is thcn that thc crank is rcvftrw«l. Scof!ing proycs nothin;_% and is all that rrost Hkcptics hHV- s to. (»H'-r. On thc oth(?r hnnd the ii-ue in th<'. One ojr!y Ci<ul h:.':> ta.' .sur« word of: proph for l'ti.< eyery aiom of whieh h:is be<';vcoTrobortitcd bv tho d<; ve!'opi;:wu"t' c.;f hiatory thus far, arid will VII <m"'ry jot and tittl'e «hall beful<il!.'.<]. Any ono'sincereiy'.desirou.s to !ear.n tV:: grouud of an Advent ,, « bcht' f e.m bo coidially sliown t.!ic Koui'ee of <mr iYiS[»iration and thc of onrbclicf. any cvcning aftcr"7:«'>o p. m , at the Advcnt ('hiip::! on Printers' Lane. We cordiaHy inv : .tc all, ;nore espccially thc wanderer \vitliout an anchor sure and steadfast. Spācc f.-rbids us cnterin2:' an cndl<ss c;-n« troversy that ean niorc full3* and f we hop?, moro fruitfu!ly a. i id, appropriately given in a church. —Ed.] _ ." "