Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-03
STARTLING PREDICTION"
Are we TO Have the Plague Ar
nOuncesI by Prof EOwndesf

In your weekly Of the I6.h inst. uadsI
the above caption, appears tbs Pfedle
ion Of a Professor Lowades CT Indtan'
5p5its,D recommending ssch ca!amitiel
~ have not visited cur planet "A ell tht
Dast history OF its inhabitants. lt Is TIT
spbearanes Of a plague IN Russia, TO 81
brought from Egypt 10 sBks-spreadinf
through Germany, England, and hnsiy
TO and through the United States, carry.
iug with i. universal death and destfuc'
i1n, etc, etc.
Tas authority on watch this "Profss
sgrU his prediction will not
We presume, carry great force OF convic'
ton TO the minds CT most people. Ia tht
lsns or on the authority Of the planets
.hs 9hysfczl heavenly bodies, he pretend.
- make bis announcement D5uoLles;
as has -irsd, or VII gain, 81 ieasss Gnf
i his O. 10s-perhaps his only ORe-HC
t0rsstB @Le,hes il be az eIlvishis z u
aor, b. Gs5au1Gipg prediction or Sc
aTful $ tc2urge, that is scon TO ever
saeim sra destroy eaTth'5 inhaoitapta
AssrO105sYs are = class or profession d
whom not q very great deal ID known oy
the nsssses of mankind, ia modern
imzs, but in the past ages 81 heather
dom taeg, With kindred classes OF sup
Qes=d wise men. were held in high esti-
nation, en- were often called on ~
Kings sZd other rulers, IS well as the
COMMON people, to untold to them thelE
dssiuiss IL the hidden future. But so
-ar "a we E&ge the means OF asceTt&inicg
rGe f~u!diioeHt CT thei- predictions, we
can ind SO satisfactory resutts-0o rev.
cations mace by tbem which were re-
a.ized by tseir F1i-aires 10 their CWn
good.
As.co;0gy, 50 wei s other Ike srts,
such as N-e-rGmaLcE, soOthsayiDgs
witchcrsst, ~dlvinsti0n, cunning, deal
ing with familiar spirits, CT consulting
the spirits OF the dead, was prsetieed
among tue Racieat EgTptiSIs IA the
time II Moses. and they were ai=o prsc-
tic5d am0Ug the nations whom The Isra-
elites drove ont OF destroyed ia taxing
possession - Tie land CT Canaan, aud
sis3, IS Is most likely, by al Oher idOia-
trous he2:hsn nations IL that period o.
the w0rld's history.
The exercise CT these arts was forbid
ie1 bT the laws Of Moses under tAS ae-
Vsrzs- ~ueaalty. II the 18Th chapter Of
the Book of Deuteronomy, beginning zt
the 10 "a vera, 70 is sad There snail
Dos be fund smorg you aHy o that
mtkeca bis con CT his daughter TO pass
;ECCCgh the ita, or that uaeth d%Ivin8tiun
ct an observer Of TINES, or gn ~eDCE2nterr
: OF q vi CD, or q CAarm=r, OF q consuiser
vita familiar spirits, y q wizard, or q
uecromaueer f1F al that DO thesa
things are al &-ooDinati0n with the
Lord and te0aase CT these aoCmin&-
tious the Lord tiny GOd doth drive them
(usaujCE The Ca~naanitesl cut from be-
fore thee
These who practical these arts, geasr-
ally had for tHeir offsets the foretsIliGg,
CT pretended foretelhSg, Of future events,
some ay q means and some BY others,
according Go the variations OF thsiT PcO-
SESSIONS. Observer Of tinfs," Dr..
I Ad4m Clark = " is enc wno prstsnds
10 f0Tsteii future events by present &C.
-cuEreuGes, ana Who pFeaiCs grs2t p5iIii-
cal evsus u pnZ sicai changes, from the
aspects of planets, sciip=es, motions Of
the clouds, etc, ETC."
Here We have in the foregoing 0n'y
2 Repetition G. compilation Of the a..
vine l2W gdica Rad besa already
z zen IN various paris Of the for
mar Books Of Moses. Though It is
probable t3e practice 81 thess arts
was often nothing tut the mere deception
sad trieEeTy Of the operators, Tor as they
are called at the present day professors
/ or mediuTnsj yet il is evident, on sic
authority, that they had . real and pEac-
teal existence, and we're praclicsd
though generally clsndestinely among
laa Isrselitiaa, during Ell the prophetic
&ge5. II It were so, that these acts only
existed IL the ~croduIity and imagination
Ok the ignorant and superstiticus, Why
should the divine law have prohibited
their exercise under the penalty Of death,
in such numerous Instances sad on 30
MISTY Occ2ai2ns, cannot be easily ex-
plailed. We might ci1s texts Of Scrip
ture p~r0hi5it0ry OF the exercise Of these
mysterious sets, more numerous and
le1 gtby than would be admissible in the
| columns OF q secular newspaper. But
another citation may not ho too tedious.
The Ism verse Of the Z2i chapter Of
[ Exodus, says 1" puOu shalt not suffer n
witch &C. live" The lea.ned author, Dr..
CLARK, above quoted says on tbs pas
sage " thers haa 5=ag 10 wijeHes,
( sueh "a law 81 this had never been made.
The existence OF the Law given under the
/ direction Of The Spirit OF God, proves
tue existence of the thing. Il hes been
fJJab.ed whether mecdshsphd the
/ original word) which We translate
Uitcb, rcslY mesnS a person who prac-
iiGsG d~iYiu2ti0n OK sOIcery by spiritual
or Internal agency. That tCitches,
wjSaYds those l0b0 dealt Nth familiar
aDfriJs, ete.-afa represented il the sa-
cl-d writings gctue ally possessing a power
10 evoke The dead, 10 perform superu&tu-
I rel operations, aud 20 discover hidden or
secret things, ~ spells, ohsrms, iacsnta-
| TONS etc is evident to every unpreju-
diced reader OF tie Bible"
But [ do rot understand tEas this au
thor iuJeRdE, III the foregoing comment,
To commit himself TO the belief that
/ these witches, d~iVlaefe, EsgrolGgers,
enc, ETC., could fGFeteil the events
of the fu<ucs; Ser ia other pla-
css be plainly denies that they c0uid,
! and gttI i3Utse al gaOTiedg9 and revsia-
! tiaas Of the lutuye to The Divine Spirit,
/ who a.o1e c-omprehenGs and understands
ali tliags which shali be hereafter.
Nor do [ admit or believe that this
f" Prof sscF CT Indianapolis has made
any such discovery, SO ne assumes, Ct an
| impending plague, by estrolcgZ or any
| other ars OF d~igiueticD. Nor should /
believe the planets had foretold him ANY,
thiGg about it, ever were ali 5s predicts
10 be realized,
paat great eaiamitiss are fOretold in
| the Prophets Of the Bible, which srs now
I having their fulai.meut in these United
/ Ssstee, tnow only sO-eailed) l have not a
douhr; ard that greater are not very far
OF in The future, [ think very probable,
II not certain bu5 just what they will
/ literally be, I do not believe can be fully
undsrstood ttl the time OF their accom-
| Dlis5ment. That tho lats great Ameri-
can var Il a flI6iImsnt Of the remarks
Die prophecy Of he ssh and sch chap
tsrs Of Ezekiel, 1 nave lately shown in a
| treaties entitled Abraham Lincoln,
late President OF the ER.ted States, de-
moDsrrated 70 pc the Cog Of the s!hle,
etc
Nov, il that prophecy concerning
q Gogp has been fulfilled in the late
civil war between the North and the
south, It is easy to show that other pre-
dietiGas are now having their fuldil-
I ment, which were to have a aotemp0ra
ueous accomplishment with that oae Of
which I wish % mention, and would be
| glad to briag it permanently before the
2ublic mind. Il is the soosing OF the
devil for g "~i:ttie zeasoB,& or, ia the
exact Scripture language 10 which the
production is found, "a The Dragon. that
Old SerDeat, Which is the DeVI ard So
tam This ioosing of the devil is to be
fog q " lttle season. after he hai been
chained aud osst into the bottcmless pit
Tor a thousand years, during which lit
tie season +" be was 10 "go out TO deceive
the patj0ns ~hich are in the four quar-
teTs OF the earth Cog and Msgcg 10
gather them together to battse-tbs num-