Oh America Stop and Think: Christ or Chaos

THE GOD, WHOM YOU HAVE FORSAKEN, IS ABOUT TO WITHDRAW HIS SPIRIT FROM YOU, HENCE, DISASTER AND DISSOLUTION.

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Last edited by Tod Robbins
December 13, 2011 | History

Oh America Stop and Think: Christ or Chaos

THE GOD, WHOM YOU HAVE FORSAKEN, IS ABOUT TO WITHDRAW HIS SPIRIT FROM YOU, HENCE, DISASTER AND DISSOLUTION.

Darter first develops a timeline for events, starting with September 16, 1936; the day Germany officially invaded Poland. Interesting since the book was published a year and a half prior. He then further explains the timeline of the Great Pyramid and how the chronology corresponds with the events pertaining to the restoration.

He speculates on who the "One Mighty and Strong" might be. In later publications he identifies him as "an Indian prophet in Yucatan who had been ordained by Lorin C. Woolley and that he and his followers would wrest control of the LDS Church and put it in order."

Darter attempts, correctly, to identify the "the Days of Tribulations," beginning in earnest, with the great depression culminating with WWII and downhill from there; but that's in Darter's future and a digression.

Page 52. "Reader! You have read the destiny of
America, The Lord, and not the writer,
has set the times and seasons of these
closing scenes. The time from about
September, 1936, to March, 1940,
according to many prophecies and
visions, including the scaled date of
September 16, 1936, as found int he
Great Pyramid, appears to be destined
to witness the beginning and close of
"the Days of Tribulations," the fall
of nations, the setting up and the
complete enthronement of this foretold
Universal Zion's Kingdom."

Included is the obligatory-for-any-doomsayer, "Book of Daniel", and also "The Angel of the Prairies" revelation by Parley P. Pratt, and the somewhat disputed, "Washington's Vision".

It is interesting to read the worldview of a turn of the century LDS man who was very well educated in the eclectic LDS collection of literature developing at the time.

We should be aware that Darter was eventually excommunicated from the LDS church over several disagreements with the church leadership where he felt that they had abandoned the faith. Apostasy is a tricky thing depending on one's viewpoint.

I'd recommend this book because it is very entertaining and thought provoking. It has some cool stuff in it, wild speculations, lots of fire-and-brimstone condemnations, and interesting self-revelations. It is accurate in describing what 21st Century America is devolving into, but any student of civilization could tell you the same thing.

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Publisher
Deseret News Press
Language
English
Pages
77

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Published in
Salt Lake City, USA

The Physical Object

Format
Pamphlet
Number of pages
77
Dimensions
6 x 4.5 x .25 inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24444734M

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December 13, 2011 Edited by Tod Robbins Normalized the place of publication
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