A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 18
18 observed much more frequently than it had ever been done before. The reason is that portions of a comet, called M. Biela’s Comet, have become separated from the main body, with the result, that during those years meteors fell in extraordinarily large numbers. There is no historical record of a similar occurrence in past ages. Therefore this is also a clear sign by which we can fix the time of the second advent of the Messiah. Similarly about the power and influence of religious leaders. The hold of religious leaders over their followers has never been so weak as in these days, and the sway of religion over the lives of the people has never been so loose before. Profanity and irreligion are rife on all sides and people have come to regard religion as a superstition and an encumbrance. This is not confined to the followers of any particular religion; all religions are being ridiculed and whatever power religious leaders are able to retain and exercise over their followers is of a kind more political than religious. This again is a sign which has been fulfilled in these days. Thus all that was written having been fulfilled, the Messiah must surely have appeared and it behoves those who love him to seek him, lest he should seize them and say: "Have I then tarried so long that ye grew weary of waiting for me, and thinking that I would not come ye have laid hands on the gardens and palaces that ye may dispose of them as ye will?" Those who seek him will have no difficulty in finding him, for he has himself specified the place of his appearance and has kept nothing secret lest some say:—