Daily Gazette And Comet

Dr. Cumming on the Signs of the Times.—Dr. Cumming has been stating his opinion at Leeds respecting the great event which, according to his interpretation of the Book of Daniel and the Apocalypse, are looming in the future. He said the year 1867 seems to end six thousand years of the world's history; and from the earliest periods onward it had been the almost universal belief that the six days of creation were typical of those six thousand years, and that the seventh day of creation, or the Sabbath, was typical of the millennial rest of one thousand years. But they would say, supposing this were so, they were at the moment over one hundred and forty years short of the six thousand years. It was a remarkable fact, however that the ablest chronologists, irrespective of all prophetic theories, had shown that a mistake of upwards of one hundred years had been made in calculating the chronology of the world, that the year 1860 of the Christian era began, not from the year 4004 of the world's history, but in the year 4135, and that the year of Christ's birth was five years before that, or in 4130. If his promises were just, then they were at that moment within seven years of the exhaustion of the six thousand years; so that if 1867 was to be the termination of this economy, they have arrived at the Saturday night of the world's long and dreary week. If this were so, it was a magnificent thought that there were some in that assembly that would never die. They were just plunging into days such as they had never seen; a European war was looming, more dreadful than that through which they had recently passed, and when these things happened, it would be seen that the sentiments he had uttered were not the dreams of fanaticism, but the words of soberness and truth.