The Comet.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 32, 13 March 1883, Page 2

The Comet.

& It-will'be ■* seen* Tffaysr Cornhill Magazine) that the, Royal fdir Sco'tfaild 1 'regards' tomefc in ; . question as a rather important bodyv. It is not an every day comet whose. _ approaches so Jmpqr taut. that, iailm^ id, see it must be regarded as an '£j>ver-^ .topping of misfortune;'' Now this comet seeems to be none othjer than that amm. l fl&ajbddjQrjcoHeetiojn,, of bodies (for so rather must a comet now be regarded), which was vHblo !to the naked eye on September ' 18th clojse to^thean'njt^'tft Tat^ ©r BPt^\oji>he3un/v writes one L startled observer — is ho* other than the comet of 1843, whoW jtail stretched half across the heaveijs^ ~and which — like the comet of last m'o.nth-rr;was;{se.3n.in:|njl daylight ; nay, even * ' close to the sun." Rightly jto 'appreifena" the significance of this -portenVas viewed-by -Profesaor-^my j,h, and ma^ others, s chicfly,~unlike him[— unscientific persons,. we should -inform our readers that in this year, according to the prophecie& symbolically indicated in the Great,.Fjratoid, the end of the dispensation which t began 1882 ye&rs ago is in some way W yet >unkhc(\fn to be brought about, Some celestial-body, "The Star in-the East? >v of th ! e ; Magi, .appeared then $. for aught we know 1 it may have' been'tWe-^ime cd'tnetpand the Wise Men. „of^;the^- East saw in! it ovidencQ that a new dispensation was abriui; to begin".- r Tfc ; -waV filling, thenV r that this year,__jvjbich has been ifor several years announced as the time! of the end f 6f ■that'dispe'n'Bation, :ri a\^idailaTr celestial appearance, or the same .bo'dyfi : perhaps, sh'uld' 'announce <l 'the' ! 'b iSginning of the end." u Wettfchnot reasonably doubt this; for careful measurement') shows' - : that ; the Grand . Gallery i: 'i; 'the: Great Pyramid is 188 : 2 ; inches lonjy ; these inches being each the twenty-fifth "paH'b'f -the aa^red'cubitj^hicir'Pyramidl-i alists-asaure us is thefimit of length ~ia\ that marvellous "structure. Moreover, it is not "ait6g : ethef: : ah -accident or -&*. mere . coincidence which has ... bmug"ht the British army to the feet of! the Great Pyramid at ; the.,vejv|ri time perhaps at' the very hour~wheh ithe, grea_t M CQmet ; waß passing, its p?iihelion. On "September 13th the'British cavajry entered Oajroj. on [September 18thi fcjie, great comet con'ld be fieei with i the aaked eye (though i|t -had. nassed ' the time of its greatest splencfour, desfribed by rrofossor Smyth »s . the « ecsi;a.tic display at pepihelioapa^s^ge,'-') .andiwa^l" then beginning ;to recede,:,. Whjtf more natural than* to" suppose isj the vanguard of Sir Garnet. ,Wol6,eley?s aVmy approached the base of 'the "Pyramids the greit comet^was. in the of perihelion' glory, wshing througb the richest Dortion of the sun's corpnial stveamers, molten, by the solar beat; 0 resisted by 'the densely aggregated meteorTßtreamß, but so ■ retarded 'that' its, return, wijil bje^astenedjancj ih^t in a,' few'months it'wi/f come back 1 to eflFe'e't tfe final jiurjdk dfits; ex^tenbe) v lf j any doubtcould be' Wertairied on the subjqctvdtißhoulii^ibeiremo.ved by the consideration that the British nation h s,teP r £ ve 3e to#? sa|gfaction of nearly alrttrue believers in the Great Pyramid prophecies, to be no other i than the lost ten tribes of Israel,