 | Peter James Begbie, P. I. Begbie - 1851 - 536 páginas
...certain priest, who was a tolerable learned man and a good accountant, declared, in one of his sermons, that the world would come to an end on a certain day and at a certain hour, according to the interpretation of these mystical words : ViDebVnt, In qVem,... | |
 | Holland Nimmons McTyeire - 1885 - 700 páginas
...America claimed The Witness of the Spirit. 139 this sanction for their calculations and predictions that the world would come to an end on a certain day — now past. Such pretensions were unwarranted. This assurance is a joint testimony, and it is promised... | |
 | William Morley - 1900 - 542 páginas
...fanaticism, which he was powerless to check. Ani Karo, of Kaikohe, set up as a prophetess. She predicted that the world would come to an end on a certain day, and so implicit was the belief in her, that many sold all their goods and gave their whole attention... | |
 | Godfrey Holden Pike - 1903 - 446 páginas
...faith.' Among the superstitions which had to be discountenanced was an occasional prophecy to the effect that the world would come to an end on a certain day, and this was believed by a number of alarmed and credulous people. In the early part of 1763, as we... | |
 | Abraham J. Baughman - 1909 - 590 páginas
...preached here, some of the members of the Baptist church embraced the new faith but when the prophecy that the world would come to an end on a certain day in April, 1844, did not prove to be true, some of these joined the Congregational church, under the... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1915 - 312 páginas
...Sunday, and once four times, when Duke Frederic 1 Michael Stieffel, pastor in Lochau, had prophesied that the world would come to an end on a certain day in 1533. See Tischreden, Weimar Ed. Ill, 290. [246] was here." And to the same one he added: " For... | |
 | Deborah Gray White - 1999 - 258 páginas
...Butler Island in Georgia. According to a notation made by Frances Kemble in 1839, Sinda's prediction that the world would come to an end on a certain day caused the slaves to lay down their hoes and plows in the belief that their final emancipation was... | |
 | Palestine Exploration Fund - 1900 - 610 páginas
...water to the Russian ground. There was at Jerusalem anxiety amongst the people because of a rumour that the world would come to an end on a certain day in the week between November 12th and 18th, so that the police were obliged to announce that anyone... | |
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Hitlerites," and they figured it out that the world would come to an end on a certain day. 