THE END OF THE WORLD.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3749, 3 January 1881, Page 2

THE END OF THE WORLD.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib,—ln yesterday evening's issue of your much respected, journal, I noticed a letter from William Wood, in which he takes upon himself to say that without Mr Horn abolishes his intercourse with people who learn from the teachings of Swedenborge something different to the namby pamby utterances of orthodox preachers and others holding opposite opinions to himself, that Mr Horn will be totally destroyed, and will be debarred from the glorious Life eternalt I think sir, that you will agree with me, that a man who presumes to dictate to another, and who speaks as though he were keeper of the gates of Heaven, is nothing short of a rank blasphemer, and is in reality taking upon himself the powers of the Almighty, by pochiming the eternal doom of those whose religious tenets are not the outcome of a brain as narrow-minded as his own. Mr Wood'undertakes to inform the public that the resurrection'will soon come. Will he kindly inform his readers how he arrives at this conclusion, and how he knows that the end of the world is close at hand ? We are told|in the Gospel that a certain personage then said 1880 years ago, " Kepent, therefore, for the Kingdom of God is at hand," but he was clearly out in his reckoning, as the end of the world has not come to pass yet. Dr Cummings also prophesied the end of the world, but the world seemingly refused to allow herself. to be ruled by. the paltry dictates of men whose enthusiasm knew no bounds. Mr Wood is a great admirer of the Bible. Does he not know that in the thirteenth chapter of St. Mark, and the thirty-first and thirtysecond verses, it is written, " Heaven aud |

eattH sball pa9s;; away, bat nay wor4 shall not pass away. Hut of that day and that hour hnoweth no man —n°, not the angels which are ™ Heaven, neither the Son, but the^Father ? And yet even when Christ himself acknowledged his inability to say when that dread day should come to pass, Mr Wood assumes a greater knowledge and power of prophesying than the Son of God. Mr Wood appeals to us as your i readers as to " whether we are prepared to meet Christ Jesus ?" It would boas well if those people who are so certain of eternal life would study the character of the Publican, and humbly pray with him, that "God will have mercy upon me a : sinner," intead of vaunting a vain-glorioua boast that his immortality is already secured. I trust that Mr Wood's conjectures iv this respect will prove correct, and that he wilPmanage to attain that j entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven, of which he appears at present to consider . i himself insured.—l am^ &c, ! EucALTPTtrs. , Tararu, Thursday.