Another Fate

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 29, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 47.

Another Fate.— We have been told with much assurance that the end of our earth, and of the solar system, and of the whole sidereal universe, was death by freezing. Moons would wax old, suns grow cold, and all life upon earth would perish. Others have told us that in our journey through space we were bound sooner or later to come into collision with a comet or sun or some other body, and be burned up in the twinkling of an eye. Now there is another theory, and that is that the whole earth is radio-active, and that as a consequence it will sometime vanish away, dissipate like the deacon's "on hoss shay" which "went to pieces all at once," "just as bubbles do when they burst." But we are cheeringly told that it will not happen in our days or in the days of our children. In view of human uncertainties, it might be well to believe the Old Book: "The earth abideth forever."