The Placer herald., 1866-07-07
NUMBER IS.
A STRANGE REVELATION.
Vision of Joseph HOag.

Joseph Hoag was boru in the year 1852,
and resided in early life in the State of New
York, but removed to Vermont where be
died, 10 l646. His parents being members
Of the religious Society of Friends, be had
bir,hhight membership. lie and his wife
Uludah) We're both ministers and highly
esteemed They had a large family, and all
of their children became ministers. The
vision, though not painted and made public
until within few years, was we'll known to
his family and a number of his friends many
years before any part of it was fulfilled.
Mr. II. writes:
In the year 1903, in the eighth or ninth
month, was one day alone in the field, and
observed that the sun shone clear, but mist
eclpsed its brightness.
As reflected upon the singuarity of the
event, my mind was struck into a silence
the most solemn | ever remember to have
witnessed; for all my faculties were low, and
unusually brought into deep silence. said
to myself; "What can all this meau9
do not recollect ever before to have been
sensible of such feelings"
And heard voice from Heaven saying:
"Ihs which thou seest is sign of the pres.
ent coming times. | took the forefalhers
of this country from land of oppression
placed them here among the people of the
forest; | sustained them, and while they
were humble blessed them and fed them,
and they became a numerous people. But
they have now become proud, and have for.
gotten me, who nourshed them and protect
ed them in the wilderness and are running
into every abomination and evil practice Of
! ~ hinh ho ola tri
taken quietude from the land and suffered
dividing spirit to come among tbem-lift
up thine eyes and behold" And I saw
them dividing iugreat heat The division
began in the churches on points of doctrine:
it commenced in the Presbyterian society
and went through the various religious de-
nominations, and in its progress and close
it's effects were the same. Those who dis.
sented went off with high heads and taunt.
ing language, and those who kept to their
original sentiments appeared exercised and
sorrowful. And when the dividing spirit
entered the Society of Friends, it ragged in
as high degree as in any had noticed or
before dscovered; and, as before, those who
separated went off with lofty looks and taun.
ting, censuring language. Those who kept
their ancient principles retired by themselves
1t next appeared in the Lodges of the Free
Masons: it broke in appearance like volca-
no inasmuch as 1t set the country in an up-
roar for time.
Then it entered politics throughout the
United States, and did not stop until it pro.
duced civil war. An abundance Of blood
was shed in the course of the combat; the
Southern States lost their power, and slavery
was annihiated from their borders. Then
a monarchical power sprang up, took the
government Of the States established a Ma.
tonal religion, and made all societies tribu,
tary to support its expenses: saw them
take property from Friends. was amazed
at beholding all this; and I heard a voice
proc|aiming: "This power shall not always
stand; but with it / will chastise my church
until they return to the faithfuness of their
forefathers. Thou seest what is coming IN.
on thy native country, for their iniquities and
the blood OF Africa: the remembrance Of
which has come up before me-"
This vision is yet for many DAYS. had
no idea Of writing it for many years s-untl
it became such burden that, for my own
relief, | have written it,
The foregoing strange Revelation comes
to us from the hands of an aged lady, be-
longing to the society of Friends, or Qua
kers. She has lived more than eighty years
and has clear recollection Of this strange
revelation or vision tor many years. The
subject years ago was talked over among
the friends, and at least quarter of a cen
tury ago the vision was printed and dstrn
bu,ed among the Friends in the form of
circular, From one of these circulars, still
in the keeping of this elderly lady, we pub.
| ish il.
We first published it in the Je6ersonian,
we believe in 1862 and again in January
1865. We now give it another insertion at
the request of a number of persons woo
have made inquiry about it.
Penna Jefersonian