THE END OF THE WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 243, 13 April 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE END OF THE WORLD

Four years more of life is the limit allowed the world by Lee J. Spangler, known as the York Prophet, of Pennsylvania who predicts that within that time the earth will drop from its orbit and be Annihilated by its plunge through space to destruction. On six previous occasions Spangler has predicted the end of the world. Two years ago he created terror among a hundred or more of his followers at Nyack, New York, by leading them to outlying hills in thair ascension robes, there to witness the pyrotechnics that were to 'accompany the dissolution of the globe. When nothing happened, Spangler was chased out of the town. He declared the prayers of a few righteous men that New York city might be saved was what prevented the catastrophe which he had expected to witness from the hills of Nyack. Spangler remained quiet after the discomfiture of his Nyack prediction, but now he is out again with his seventh prophecy. He says tlvj real prophet prophesies seven times, and then the event comes to pass. As this is his culminating effort, Spangler asserts that nothing can save the earth from dissolution unless a considerable part of the world's population mends its ways and becomes good.