Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-02-16

quietly Jnat uld. Sne Strengthened
herself, and with a bearing of queen
ly dignity and authority, not devoid
Of certain sarcasm, said: "What
authority had you for doing it?"-
"Oh, Madam" replied, ''it was a
sentiment" The President made
no remark.
Joseph Hoag's Vision.
Bsrnsvile CO., Enterprise.
We have been requested by sever
al persons to publish the so-called
vision of Joseph Hoag, seen by him
in the year 1905. 1t is given below
Joseph Hoag, the journal Of whose
life lies before us, was born in 1862
and died in 1916, and during the
greater portion and to the end of his
life was Il worthy member and an eft
ticient worker in the Society OF
Friends. He was born in New En-.
gland but his laborS extended among
his people all over the country. On
attention was first called to this Wis
ion, or prophecy, in the year 1850,
when the country was on the eve OF
the great civil war therein predicted.
Within i few years the vision iii that
respect was realized, as, in fact, has
every other prediction, excepting the
establishment of the monarchy
which is not yet, but by no means an
impossibility. Let us hope that the
seer over whose vision this coming
event cast its dark shadow may have
been mistaken Oh this point, and
that this last bitter cup may never be
pressed to our lips. We extract from
Hoag's Journal, published 1861. We
have no means of ascertaining when
the vision itself was first put into
pint, but it probably appeared as
early as 1880. Can any Of the old
Friends give us any light on this
point? The vision reads rs follows:
In the year 1903, probably i'll the
eighth or ninth month, l was one d y
alone in the fields, and observed that
the sun shone Gear, but that mist
eclipsed the bri rightness of its shin.
ing.
AS reflected upon the slngularity
of the event, my mind was struck III
to II silence, the most solemn l ever
remember of having Witnessed; for it
seemed as if all my faculties were
laid low, and unusually brought into
deep silence. said to myself:
Nv hat can all this mean? | do not
recollect of ever before being sensi-
bic of such feelings"
And | heard a voice from heaven
say, ''This that thou seest, which
dims the brightness Of the sun, is Il
sign of the present and coming
time. | took the foretathers of this
country from land of oppression;
planted them here among the people
OF the forest. / sustained them and
while they were humble | blessed
them and fed them, and they became
numerous people; but they have
now become proud and lifted up, and
have forgotten me, who nourishe,l
and protected them i'll the wilderness
and are running into every abomina-
ton and evil practice Of which the
old countries are guilty; and | have
taken from the land, and suffered a
dividing spirit to come among them.
Lift up thine eyes and behold" And
| saw them dividing in great heat.
This division began in the church
upon points of doctrine. 1t com
commenced in the Presbyterian soci-
ETY., and went through the various
denominations, and i'll its progress
and close the effect was nearly the
same; those who dissented went off
with high heads and taunting Ian
guage; and those who kept their or
ganized sentiments appeared exercis-
ed and sorrowtIl. And when this
dividing spirit entered the Society of
Friends it ragged in as high a degree
as any l had before discovered. and,
rs before, those whoSeparatcd went
with taunting looks and censorious
language; those who kept to their
ancient principles retired by them
selves.
1t next appeared in the Lodge of
Free Masons, and it broke out in ap-
pearance like Il volcano, inasmuch us
it set the country in an uproar for Il
length of time. Then it entered pol
ltics throughout the United States,
and did not stop until it produced
civil war, and an abundance OF hu-
man blood was shed in the course of
the combat. The Southern States
lost their power and slavery was an
initiated from their borders. Then
monarchial power arose-took the
Government of the States-establish-
ed national religion, and made all
Societies tributary to support its ex-
penses. l saw them take property
from Friends to large amount. l
was amazed at beholding all this,
and heard a voice proclaim, "This
Power shall not always stand, but
with this power will chastise my
church until they return to the faith
fulness Of their foretathers. Thou
seest what is coming on thy native
land tor their iniquity, 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 down
for many years, until it became such
Il burden that for my own relief |
have written it. JOSEPH HoAG.
Senator Christancy wonders why