Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-08
INTERPRETATION OF PROPH
ECY.
An Interesting Pamphlet by an
Old Citizen.

~ e. III
We mentioned a few days since the reception
OF s pamphlet from the Public Ledger printing
otics, with the title abraham Lincoln, late
President OF ths United States, demonstrated
10 be the Cog OF tie BIBLE, as Ioretold BY the
prophet Ezekiel in the Ssth and S9th chapters
ofLts BOOK o~fprOFhecy "SdemOnaLrattng, also,
that the thirteen states wnieh formed the late
Confederacy are the mountains OF. Islael,"
spoken Of In the same book, and all OF the pre-
uictions contained in the prophecy concerning
chem were literally fulfilled in the late war be-
tween the North and the South
During the last few years several works on
this subject, whfoh1s one ofpeculiar interest TO
the general reader, have been wIiLEen in this
countrJ. The most remarkable or these, pei
Eaps, is Dr. BsIds ms " Armageddon," on these
same chapters that the suEhor treats in lbe
present brochure. These two chapters, indeeI,
nave ever been fsvoriJe themes with students
OF bible prophecies, and nave been, as our
author remarks, "a puzzle and o mystery 20 the
most astute and learned commentators and in
terpreters Of prophecy. The learned Adam
CIa-ke, q commentator OF great reputation,
who wrote about seventy years ago, Whiting OF
G.g, who is there spoken OF, says; This Is al
los eu to be by far the most dIf1icnlt rophecy
ia the old testament 1t Is difficuIt to us. be-
cause We know not the King OF the people in
,endsd py 1t lSUgs bat I AKA satisfied thai they
were we'll known by those names IN the tunes
kAae eAAC kA9kA1a HA0-I~|
our author, whS Is at present ineoanU sets
out with the proposition 10 that
this luzRle whI-h. mas hitherto successfully de-
ned the utmost ingenuity of the learned and
curious, has been IGahIls1, IA part az least, and
IS no longer a my suery or di1ncuit to under
stand, ana ne laJs out his WORK in eight sega.
rate propositions, as follows: g
l.. We viii show that the great war referred to
must occur IaIe ia the evening OF ume.
2. That The kceTls was 10 be On LhiS continent,
and IL can De EOBheEe siss.
J. Thai the combination q peoplem making the
war Is found hsFt, and II cannot be found any
whsrs else on es.rthi or IN the history Of the
4. That the PEG pie agsinst whom the war was
made are found here In these States of the
-ouLn, AID that no other people ever existed
besides who MI all the requirements OF the
prophecy.
5. Inss Abraham Lincoln is the Cog Of the BIZ
bic that he Ills the bill, and no other ruler
ever dIa. -la.
o. Tnat the incentives by which the war was
TO be carried On have DeeR fdlnlIed 10 a dot.
z. That al tne great results and events fOre-
told as constquenE nom tails war, have been
IuInIIed Without one single exception and
8. that TIE rsaulL aD0 consequent events, 40
IA 7 as hey are } ct enaed, aIe as pietnly 10 be
50 tn IS the dnesGloRs on any ~slgnboard On q
D uDIIc highway. Besides LEese general out
lines, will De shown scores OF exact Iuinu-
men Is OF, or agreements with, the text.
We have not mad tlAe, IS yea, to psrase the
work as we woUdhKe 70 do, and with this
outline Of It's object and character will leave 1t
,or the present. as TO lis authorship, we are
at liberty only 10 say that he Is 5 Memphisn, q
gentleman Of distinction, End . man OF great
reading, The style is clear and his reasoning
conclse-aRd, altogether, the little book is very
entert aiming. IL is 10 be haa al all CT the book
stores, or at the Ledger office, TOR the moderate
sum OF fifty cents q copy.