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LOCAL PASTOR'S SERMON.

In his sermon at Union Church last eveni•g the Rav. J Kirt Macon chie, the pastor, deali with recent slarming prophesies with regard to the unusual on- junction of the planets which will occur on December 17. Tak ing as his text:—

"Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye loot for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in pesor, without spot, and blameless in Bis sight," he said

These bing" are the passing away of the heavens and the ear.h and the appearance of "s" new heaven and a new earth, wherein The dwelleth righteousness." writer is alluding to the expecta tion of a day in which "the bes vens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements bali melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all the works that are therein shall be burned up."

That is a very ancient and a

very widespread expectation respecting the end of the world, though just how it arose might be hard to surmise. Believing the world to have been created we inevitably comtemplate, I sup pose, the pssibility of its being sometime destroyed. The universe which has been brought to I istance may also, it would seem, : be put out of existence; or, to ex prexa it in another and better way, ihe Creator may bring to an end this present manifestation of His glory and replace it by some ofher. The 102nd. Psalm puts the thought with fine dignity: (V. 25- 26).

Of old hast Thon laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Thy Hands. They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure. Yen all of them shall wax old like a garmen1: År a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed. But Theu art the same, and Thy years shall have no end."

The epistle to the Hebrews cites thos verses at its outset, and the thought is very appropriate to that treatise, the object of whict was to prepare Jewish Christiane for the inevitable passing away of

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earth, and the blaze into habitants by the crancgen pas luminosity would be caused by the which some spectroscopist was heat resulting from the tremen said to have detected in its tail. dous impact when the two rushed together.

I don't know what happened here but in both Paris and New Our world may at same time York there were people who Here in Peter we have an ex

end in that way; sometimes actually sat up all night, and tension of the same idea. Not simphoughtful people are in a mod to drank what they called "cyast gen a protection, and ly is the Mosaic system to be end

wish it might do so soon. Look cocktails" as ed, the whole earth and heavensing at this world and the course some of them at least were tealls are to be destroyed. That expect

of biological evolution upon alarmed.

ed dra'ruction however does not the late F. H. Huxley, as will be end everything: it is precedent to remembered." said

one

could

a reconstruction or rather & re-almost wish for a "Kindly come creation in ncbler form-that to sweep the whole affair away."

heaves and earth

If the late war were the bighest wherein dwelleth righteousness," which expression of our civilization one human eyes bave not yet seen, could echo the wish without but which human hearts cannot qualification. If the choice lar cease to long for.

A the present time eB great many people are more or less dis- urbed about a very definite pro- phecy, not exic-ly of the ead of the world, but of very terrill- phenomena on December 17th and afterwards.

The source of the prophecy is between a future of Huonishness an American professor whose and sudden extinction by cosmic name I do not happen to tave This gentleman maş catastrophe one could but say seen bet like King David of old that it in sy tot be a distinguished is own line. I do not. better to fall into the hand of God than into the hand of ma

sh about that, but I

How far the writer had in mind the literal payeic-l destruction or transformation of this materis world is & matter I hould not care to dogmatise about. Banishness however has been *kat he has ventured in If his expectations were i tered" and in spite of all the the field of prediction farther than they were by no means unre-son able. Such a finsle to our solar trouble it outbreak has left bebe pressat state of knowledge or anyone else. system is undoubtedly a hind we may go on hóping for a warrants him

pes. || sibility. Millions of stars are

continued lease of life in which Any educated man who has made rushing through space, and it cur our rice will take one further some study of modern astronomy it struggle might know as much as that, sun, which is ore of their um. upward step in ber, were to collide with one of 10 for existence but for worthi and if I traverse some of his in

OD that broad them the elements would certainlsness to exist" which is the real ferences it is "melt with fervent heat," and our warfare appointed to man upon ground. He offers his conclusions with great confidence to the earth and her sister planets would be dissolved out of their present

public; they have been given, in condition. That is not to say that our world to end its career amis our local English press and re "the wreck of matter and the printed into the Chinese press, and a great many of our Chinese neighbours are experiencing an- riety as to the dreadful thing which are foretold.

the earth.

If it even should be the lot of

such a catastrophe is a thing to be expected any day. There are crush of worlds" we can be sure indeed millions of stars rushing it will not be by the instrumen through space, but space affords tality of any comet. them abundant room. Our sun'e From the earliest times comets

nearest neighbour 19 at such a

have been the innocent cu

the

Our atmosphere, says this Professor Prats, will at the date specified be thrown into "a dis- turbance without precedent or parallel.”

istance that the light from it takes of dread foreboding and even

frantic perturbation ira 444 years to cross the abyss

minds of mer, but in reality the which separates them, and our nez: neighbour beyond is perhaps deed it is not almost misleading to

Are very harmless bodies if in

There will be hurricanes, light use auch a term as body at al ninge, colossal rains.

("Colo:sal" is a curious term to Our sua and his attendant train about them, so little solidity do

to thiuse about rain), have pursued. their

they possess. journey

day the public cever hears of Aleo we are to bave "gigantic through space for perhaps hu the approach of a corner of any lava eruptions, great earthquakes,

twice that in conceivable distance removed.

date.

Yet even

dreds of millions of years a speed of some 18 miles a second distinction without the stirring up to say nothing of floods and fear- in safety, and they may do so still of mass of silly apprehensions tu! cold." All this Mr Prata pro for an ind-Enite perind."

which are really quite unworthy feszes to know, but perhaps the But the possibility of a collision of the age. I remember as a boy-most di quieting suggestion lies does exist. There is much ground think about 1874 or 1875 would in his closing bint about an for thinking that such citastra be the date the consternation ultimate outcome which lies' ba- phes do occurfrom time to time which was widely excit-d by yond his knowledge. He is us Announcemens of the end of the bis forecast as a solemn warning, away in the abysmal depths of space. Occasionally we bear of world, which was to be destroyed clothed in emphatic and superla- some "new star" as we say be. by an expected comer on a given five language, and it is being taken by those that may be so inclined to coming visible, very faint at first, then gradually increasing in

Some wiga in our village on the indicate that the end of all thir ge brightcess till in some cases it night of the great evant sent up a is probably at hard, at anyrate becomps the most brilliant cbject big Kite with a lump of peat soak for us dwellers on the earth. There in the midnight sky.

ed in naphthablezinget its tall, and is further an air of precision called out the inhabitants to view about the prophecy which makes After a short career of glory the on coming woe! Oge or two frappaarquite Soal to the reader the new luminary begins to fall away and after a short poor creatures. I am ashamed to who may not be in a position to time disappears

way, were foreally terrified for the check it. People nowadays may be from view leaving no

few minutes the binze lasted. 1sceptical about religion" but they trace visible to it us behind

What these have lived through guite a number will accept slmost anything put temporary stars are cannot as yet of similar scares since then, none forward to the name of science be told with certainty, but quite of them more respectable. Even so Professor Prata affirms that his a likely conjicture is that the lately as the last appearance of "startling prophecy" is based outbreak reveals to us & collision Halley's comets yest amount of pan "simple, yet astounding between two of the heavenly has to su expected destruction planets bas revealed with mathe nonsense, was put about not per facts" which bis study of the bodies. One or both of them may of the earth but certainly as to matical certainty have been cold and dark like our the possible poisoning of its in

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