The Doom of Our World by North British Review

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 13, 1857

The Doom of Our World.

By North British Review

What this change is to be we dare not even conjecture; but we see in the heavens themselves some traces of destructive elements, and some indications of their power. The fragments of broken planets—the descent of meteoric stones upon our globe—the wheeling comets welding their loose materials at the solar furnace—the volcanic eruptions of our own satellite—the appearance of new stars, and the disappearance of others—are all foreshadows of that impending convulsion to which the system of the world is doomed. Thus placed on a planet which is to be burnt up, and under heavens which are to pass away; thus treading, as it were, on the cemeteries, and dwelling in the mausoleums of former worlds—let us learn the lesson of humility and wisdom, if we have not already been taught it in the school of revelation.—North British Review.