Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1920 — Beliefs About World’s End. [ARTICLE]

Beliefs About World’s End.

The Mphammedans believe the time of the end of the world to be a perfect secret to all save God alone; the angel Gabriel himself acknowledged his Ignorance on this point when Mohammed asked him about It. Christianity of all is the least certain about the precise of the event. Jesus, ; ling his disciples of the precursory signs of the great catastrophe, said: “Verily, this generation will not pass before my words shall be accomplished.” The first Christians, accordingly, looked to immediate fulfillment of the prediction and believed the end of the world near at hand. Although the advent failed to come to pass, they claimed to believe In its near realization. Still, centuries followed centuries and the world continued to live.