MODERN PROPHESY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2786, 18 January 1878, Page 2

MODERN PROPHESY.

According to Dr R. T. Trail, the inhabitants of the earth will be visited with many calamities, writing in the Philadelphia Star the Dr says :— . We shall not have to wait long for the appearance of the* expected pestilences, for we are approaching a very pestilential period. Jupiter, one thousand times as large as the earth, revolves round the sun every 12 years; Saturn, once in about 30 years; Uranus, once in about 164 years. The perihelion of all these planets does not occur at the same time for thousands of years. In. the sixth century, and again in the sixteenth, the first three were coincidently in perihelion; and these were the most pestilen* . tial periods in the Christian era. The perihelion periods of Jupiter and Saturn coincide with the extensive prevalence of plague, cholera, and other epidemics. > But in future, from even now to 1885, we are to have what has not occurred for eighteen hundred years, viz., the nearest approach to.the sun of all four of the planets coincidently. The obvious deduction from this fact and theory is that the earth's temperature, and the changed condition of its atmosphere, consequent on the!interference with, or abstraction of the usual amount of its light and heat will be increasingly unfavourable to life and health on our globe from this present time to 1880, and from 1880 to 1885 the adverse influences will be the greatest, after that they will gradually diminish. Dr Knapp has shown, in a historical paper to the New York Medical Jour- • nal, that all wide-spread pestilence! for 300 years past have occurred with the perihelia, or nearing of the large planets. At former periods it has been noticed thai the near approach of one or more of the larger planets of the solar system occa* stoned disturbance in the atmosphere, causing great heat and cold, droughts and rains, blights on tho crops and fruits, and epidemic amoni? human beings, and epi« zotics among animals.