SCOFFERS AND BLASPHEMERS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3982, 3 October 1881, Page 3

SCOFFERS AND BLASPHEMERS.

(To the Editor of the Evening ctab.) Sib, —The Observer says :—" Prophet Wood, of the Thames, has for years past held up 1881 as the occasion for the general smash up of the universe. Hurry up, prophet! you have only got three months to go and the earth hwsn't turned a hair. We are backing the world. Anyone like to bet ?" In answer to the above, I never positively held up any specific or definite day, hour, or year for the geneml smash up of the universe, neither have I said that the universe is to be smashed up at all. I, however, said that by comparing the divine and prophetic writings with the signs of our times in the increase all over the earth of scoffers aud blaspberu. rs— such as those, for instance, who ruu that wretched rag. The Observer—that the present condition or order of things cannot last much longer. I stated in the last number of Enoch that the smash up of the wicked scoffers and blasphemers of this earth, with all their ungodly works. begins not later than the middle of 1882 This is ray firm belief, and of very many deep prophetic students of whom scoffing editor knows nothing about. " Why, the very presence of his immoral, corrupt, and pestiferous rag, and such like wretched journals (yclept ed society papers), on the earth, and the very eagerness with which such trash is sought after by the people, are two of the biggest signs of " the consummation of the present age " and the destruction of the wicked, with all their inventions and works. But prophets, and those who develope prophecy, never argue with such as society rag editors; they mentally conclude them to be fools and know-nothings in such matters, so keep their mouths shut and their pens still. But this they are bound to do. They witness against evil and warn them of .the consequences of their wrong and crooked ways. They are willing also to', give such the proofs which-' they have for the conclusions they come to from the book they themselves get their knowledge out of, so 1 refer this Observer and others to that unerring volume, from which sny may learn, providing they have implicit faith in its teachings, and receive them with reverence as the voice of the Deity to His human creatures, but doubt this fact, and it is precious little that any one can know about " the consummation of the age" or itf judgment, until the power of the Deity falls upon them and their works, and grinds all to powder. The proofs that this age must speedily end with all its covetousnes, its perjury, its thievery aud fraud, its adultery, its murders—political, social and ecclesiastical, its disobedience to parents, its Sabbath breaking, its non-reverence and blasphemy of the Deity, its image worship, and its downright atheism and man worship, are legion in the book we learn from, but we direct this editor and others to Psalm 37, Isaiah 24, Jeremiah 25 from verse 15, Revelation 18 and 19, 2 Peter 2nd chap , 2 Timothy 3rd chap. All the signs of these times jprove the above predictions true, and the crisis of the world at hand, while those who reverence not the Deity, His Christ, and their word of inspiration—the Bible— destruction await? both them and their families, as it did in Noah's days, so sure as the Deity presides over the Universe of Globes. Hurry up, scoffers and blasphemers ! It is time for you to repent and seek the Lord, for the time of your destruction hastens on apace,—l am, &c, W. Wood.

- - -.. (To the Editor of the ETBHiKa Stab.) Sib,—l am sorry, for Br Huxtable's sake, that my remarks should have drawn him out so fully. Some of us, perhaps, now and again, may feel inclined to put forth the petition, "save me from my friends;" but Dr Huxtable, judging from his letter in your issue of Saturday, ought slightly to modify the text, and constantly offer up the prayer, " Save me from myself!" I never read a letter so stamped with egotism and self-conceit. What a shining light we have had all this time on the Thames, hiding its brilliancy under a bushel! Why, according to his own showing, he has had opportunities and advantages such as fall to the lot of very few. He was House Surgeon to this institution, House Physician to that, and goodness knows what else besides. I don't know much about those things, but I can tmt two and two together, and by that process it puzzles one to know how Dr fluxfcable can have held all those appointments, when I remember that he stated at the Prokoffi trial that he was only four years qualified, and when I find from his printed testimonials that he was in the colonies a few months after being qualified. But, then, perhaps they are not very strict in the old country, and give those appointments to unqualified men. Dr Huxtable is anxious to impress on us that he did not come to the Thames for experience. Again I say, I don't know much about those things, but I should have thought that in progressive sciences, like Medicine and Surgery, a man engaged in the practice of his profession must always considsr himself a student, and be always adding to his stock of experience. And lam afraid that the young man who starts on bis labours with the comfortable conviction that he has j2 nothing to learn will come to grief on the quicksands of ignorance. But Dr Huxtbale is not an ordinary man. Like Minerva, he was projected fullfledged on the world with a complete stock of every qualification. And certainly if his experience is on a par with his modesty, he is equal to any emergency, and does not do him3elf injustice when he says that he "did not come to the Thames for experience." I am glad to know that there ,is one medical man on the Thames who " minds his own business," but I am afraid he gives a very wide interpretation to that phrase, and translates it "making his own business at the expense of others 1"—I am, &c, Parent.