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Southland Times, Issue 649, 27 March 1867, Page 3

Dr CtrstMiNG-'s Pbedictions.— On Sunday evening Dr Cumming took for his text, Jonah i, 6, — '•■ " What meanest thou, O sleeper ? arise, call upon thy Grod." In commenting upon the story of Jonah he went over much of his old ground, and repeated moßt of his usual illustrations in relation to the approaching end of this world. He said that 20 years ago he had fixed upon the year 1866' 'as .the probable period when time should come to an end, and he had then and since been much ridiculed for his belief. But where were the scoffers now ? Did not the present time portend some dreadful catastrophe. The minds of men were much troubled, and the councils of nations perplexed, by the dread of some great and terrible calamity that was presently to come upon the earth. The Papacy was in its last throe, and all the Pope's lambs were ready to turn upon their shepherd and tear him asunder; "' The 10,000 nuns and the 10,000 priests dispossessed by Victor Emmanuel were coming over to help Dr Manning and the Puseyites to fight their last great battle in England. He believed that the true interpretation of prophecy pointed to this year, or probably 1868, as the consummation of all things ; but if Jonah were to go to-morrowj at " twelve o'clock," to the Royal Exchange, "the centre of the commerce of thia great, nation and proclaim this belief, he. would, b& laughed at,"'— Post.^ „;■•■«, .;■•■« ■