The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-24
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- O1hSL. NOu Will lClllly tIIe
enemy by dreadful storm. OF the
Russlans few will return home"
Of the future of Prussia, Jaspers
maintained an obstinate silence, ouly
saying that King Frederick William
VIII be the last. A man named
Poftgeisser, predicted that Frederick
William would have no successor
"he disappears" "There will then
be but one religion" says Jaspers.
" a church on the Rhine will be
built, IN which all people will assist.
All sGts shall be united, only the
.JeWsYill retain their old obstinacy."
Thehext prophet was Speilbahn,
meaning fiddler" He died in 1888.
v Speiking of what should follow,
he sid "that it would hardly be
pSss bfesto distinguish the peasant
from the nobleman." He points to
a period when the splendor of the
aristocracy should be humiliated to
the rank or at least to the manners of
the poor. He continues:
"Courtly manners and worldly
vanity will reach to height hither-
to unequalled. Yea, things will 90
so far that men will no longer thank
God for their daily bread" ....
"Human intellect will do wonders
or miracles. They will mock at God,
because of the carriages which shall
run through the whole world, with
out being drawn by animals" ..
"And because courtly vices and
sensuality and sumptuousness of APP
parel are then SO great, God will
punish the world. A poison shall
fall ON the fields, and a great famine
Shall affllct the country"
In 1872, Capuchin monk, of Das-
seldorf, made this prediction. The
Capuchin monks wore theiY boards
in the prevailing fashion of the pres
ent time:
"After dreadful war shall there
be peace; yet there shall be no peace,
because of the contest of the poor
against the rich, and Of the rich
against the poor, shall break out"
after this peace shall come a
heavy time. The people shall have
no longer truth or faith.
"When women know not, from
pride and luxuriousness, what clothes
they shall wear, sometimes short,
sometimes long, sometimes narrow,
sometimes wide; when men also
change their dress, and wear every
where the boards Of the Capuchins,*
then will God chastise the world.
A dreadful war shall break out in
the South and spread eastward and
northward. The kings shall be
killed. Savage hordeS shall overflow
Germany and come to the Rhine.
They shall take delight in murder
ing and burning, so that mothers, in
despair, seeing death everywhere be-
fore their eyes, shall cast themselves
and their sucklingS into the water.
When the need is greatest, a pre-
server shall come from the south.
He shall defeat the hordes of the
enemy, and make Germany prosper
Gus. But, in those days, many parts
shall be so depopulated, that it will
be necessary to climb tree to look
for people afar off"
*This is now the case in Germany,
An old prophecy concerning the
"Birch Tree" ... .....
ga time shall come when the
world shall be Goddess. The people
shall strive to be Independent of
king or magistrate, subjects will be
unfaithfnl to their princes. Neither
or faith prevails more. 1t will then
come to a general insurrection, in
which father shall fight against son,
and son against father. In that time
men shall try to pervert the articles
of faith, and shall introduce new
books. The Catholic religion shall
be hard pressed, and men will try
with cunning to abolish it. Men
shall love play and jest, and pleasures
of all kinds, at that time. But then
it shall not be long before a change
occurs. A frightful war shall break
out. On one side shall stand Russia,
Sweden, and the whole north; on
the other, France, Spain, Italy, and
the whole south, under a powerful
prince. This prince shall come from
the south. He wears white coat,
with buttons all the way down. He
has a cross on his breast, rides gray
horse, which he mounts from the left
side, because he is lame of one foot.
He will bring peace. Great is his
severity, for he will put down all
dance music and rich attire. He
will hear morning mass in the church
at Bremen According to some ira
ditions, he will read mass.) From
Bremen he rides to the Haar, IA
height near Werl;) from thence he
looks with his spy glass toward the
country..0f the Birch Tree, and OBJ.
serves the enemy. Next he rides
past Holtum, "a village near Werl.)
At Holtum stands crucifiX between
two lime trees; before this he kneels
and prays with outstretched arms
for sometime. Then he leads his
soldiers, clad in white, into the bat
tie, and, after bloody contest, he
remains victorious.
''Ihe chief slaughter shall take
place at brook which runs from
west to east. Woe! Woe! to Bod
| berg and SOndern in those daVS