be proven by appealing to history and to astronomy, the former of which
teaches that the Jews were removed from Judea to Alexandria twenty-five
years before the accession to the throne of Philadelphus, the Second
Ptolemy, to whom we have referred in our preceding article, and who,
after reigning thirty-nine years, died 246 years before the beginning
of our era. By reference to the Celestial atlas we will find that the
Vernal Equinox will pass out of the sign of Pisces into that of
Aquarius, or in the year 1900, and we have but to deduct that period of
time from 2150, the number of years required for the cardinal points to
pass through one whole sign, to determine that the Spring Equinox
passed out of the sign of Aries into that of Pisces 250 years before
the beginning of our era, or about 2,100 years ago. Now, from the
projections of the astrological science, we are assured that the last
half of the grand cycle of 12,000 years, which was allotted to man as
the duration of his race on earth, was made to begin at a time
corresponding to the Autumnal Equinox, when that cardinal point was
passing out of the sign of Virgo, and that of necessity it had to come
to an end at a time corresponding to the Vernal Equinox, when that
cardinal point was passing out of the sign of Aries; from which we know
why, at the last judgment, the office of trumpeter was assigned to the
Archangel Gabriel, the genius of Spring, and why it was a ram's horn
with which he was to "toot the crack o' doom"

When the time arrived for the fulfillment of the prophecies we can well
imagine that, fearing the wrath of the Lamb, there were weeping,
wailing and gnashing of teeth among the terror-stricken sinners, while
those who believed they had made their calling and election sure were
looking with feverish expectancy for the second advent of their Lord
and Saviour; and, doubtless, clothed with their ascension robes, they
watched and waited, with ears alert, to hear the sound of Gabriel's