The End of the World.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1453, 12 September 1885, Page 4

The End of the World.

(Nsqiier Eoenint) JVews) Our local sensational parson will next Sunday holil forth on "The indications of the app)oaehing end of the world " We do not. suppose that anyone will hurry up their outstanding accounts or refuse to accept three months'lnli. So many men have tried to stir up en-, thusiasm about the end of the world that the idea has liocome stale. Everyone who has heftn hold, enough to say it was app oaching has heen "badly left." The old world <*oe< buzzing along, a d m-ikes jaokas^e^s nf All who foretold its destruction. We do not suppose our sensational Divine really believes that the world is near des ti'ucbiqn. because if he did we would leud 111 t'u a few scientific works that would compose him. He nm«t work up excitement soniel'ow. Asa mnVer of fact it will take about. 3,000,000.000 of years for the land on the surface ot Iho globp to be snbmorge'l at the present late of sn' morion fvide Proc(or). Then, si* far as the. human species is roncernrd, it would have been ended, but still would whirl on through spiiea. It can never absolutely cease, to exist. For the euth ti be actually rubbed out womM mean the annihilation of the entire nniver.«e, and none outside a lunatic asylum has ever been able to realise that, astounding phenoneum of something becoming nntfo'ng. Matter continually chahsfcs, but "n«vpr ceases to exist. Our earth maintains It* nositinn m sp»ce as a on-eqnent of its weight. Let that be lessened and its position at once, is changed, with the result of a ro "responding change m thousands of the globes. To contemplate our earth being wined out, is worthy of a inaninc alone. Every scientific professor of the present daywill explain that matter i* indestructible, that matter accumulates m circular forms- and moves m circles, and that matter is never m a condition of rest, but ever m motion. Every atom that goes to make up our world is eternally grinding against other atoms, strutrffb'ng towards the centre of gravity m compliance with the law of-gni vital ion,- which causes matter 'o assume the shnpo of globes All this is very interesting, and it is perfectly infantile for any man to attempt to dia'w congregations by suggesting " the end of the world." Leave that to old Mother Shipton, hut/ m the nineteenlh century let us be men, and leave off such silly twaddle. Turn to the. great world, help to relieve misery, help to lighten each other's burden*, teaoh us- to love one another, and leave the old women's tale 1 * about the end of the world for the nursery.