The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-03-21

reasonable construction Of the. words, wha
it is that they indicate
The Turks came into Europe in the 13t
century, but it is somewhat remarkable tina
it was not until the year 1853 that Moham
med ii. stormed Constantnople aud per
manently established Isamism in Europe a
a national and military and ecclesiastical
power. And in that same year as nearly a
can now be ascertained, this prophecy wa
delivered. Now, ,"twice two hundred years
brings us to 1858, and the Crimean war A
it was called was entered upon by Russi
The Bear in 1858, aud in 1854 Englan,
and France "The Cock" and "The Bull
united, and in 1856 the peace of Paris wa
signed, the Bear not having prevailed. |
mother Shipton had written her lines afte
the event the facts could not have been statet
more exactly in accordance with the historic
cal result. In 1853 the dread of Russian
supremacy, the jealousy of interference with
English interests in the east, and nationa
pride were the incentives inducing EuglanC
to engage in that war. This same dread anc
Jealousy and pride were not one whit les,
in 1876 than in 1853, were urged most We
hemently by one party in England as a rea.
son for armed Intervention for Turkey last
year and yet most mysteriously the "Bull
and the Cock" held aloof from the contest
and when the peace of Berlin was signed, il
was no longer an open question that the
power of Turkey as a nation in Europe was
utterly destroyed.
From 1856, the peace of Paris, to the
breaking out of the late war between Rus.
sia and Turkey, was just "twice ten years. u
1t is to be observed also that concerning the
war in the Crimea, not one word was ever said
about the Gross" or the Crescent :" b. il
is a matter Of history that this last war be-
tween the same powers, was begun, urged,
and waged, for the protection and defence
of Christians from the rapacity and cruelty
OF the Moslems. So the two portions of this
prophecy are just as distinct and specific and
particular as the past history of the transac-
tions shows they ought to have been. His.
tory and prophecy allow and agree that the
first was war between nations and hi.to.
ry and prophecy equally agree that this last
was war between and on account of re-
igions.
The Cross shall wax, the Crescent wane
Grow pale and disappear"
Call this prediction what you please, the
history of the world may be challenged to
point out more exact and remarkable cor
respondence between the march of events
and the prophecy concerning them. The ma.
tlons and times and the object Of the wars
as well as the results are specifically set forth;
and no man who reads the history can pre-
tend to misunderstood or misapprehend
them. Ifthere was nothing more than this,
Mother Shipton might challenge The atten
tion of students of history and also an ia
quiry into that mental &C ndtion which new,
after the date of the end of what has been
called the era of prophecy might thus receive
and evolve series of statements which the
march of time has discovered to the world,
as undisputed facts But Mother Shpton
has gone still deeper into the mystery of the
human intellect and its operations.
In the year or thereabouts, of 1853, the
prophecy declares
Gold shall be found and grown
In a land that's not yet known.
And in the year 1892, thirty-nine years af-
ward, Columbus discovered America Did
the eye of the seer peer through the mists of
the stormy Atlantic, and discover this vast
and into the bowels of the earth
aud see the glitter of the gold which was not
discovered even by ourselves until the year
1917, almost four hundred years after the
words were spoken, and nearly that after
the discovery of the continent? Or even if
Australia should be referred to, the remark
Is equally true, for Australia was not known
before 1850, and more than likely not earlier
than 1000 and the discovery of gold there
was not until 1851 In either case the land
was not known to any body in 1853, and in
both cases the finding of gold is in such I'M
mense quantities as to challenge the wonder
of the world. Whence could have come so
exact guess, covering in two lines two such
facts and agreeing precisely with the predic.
ton.
Fire and water shall wonders do.
This can have reference only to the steam
engine in its application to navigation, loco.
motion and manufactures. And however
and mechanics and inventors
may have thought and abstractly written
upon the subject, it was not till after 1900
that any pretense can be made as to its APP
plication and nothing tangible before the
claims of Jonathan Hulls in 1885, 1t is
true that Roger Bacon, before 1892 is sup
posed to have seen the use of steam, but
nothing seems to have come from his lucu.
brations. This not the time nor the place
to write disquistion upon steam, and to
people who are never out of the sound of
the steam locomotive or manufacturing
whistle, anything of that sort would,be with
out point or purpose.
England at last shall admit Jew,
1t is impossible to give even an epitome of
the horrible persecution to which the Jews
We're subjected during the first fifteen hun
dred years Of the Chistian era. In this more
and humauized and perhaps
age the cruelties are almost be.
yond belief, and would certainly not be cred
tied were they not attested by sober history.
During the early years of our era, the Roman
emperors seemed determined to annihiate
them, and about A. d. l35 the whole of
Judea was made like desert. A thousand
towns and villages lay in ashes, and Jerusa.
lem itself was settled by heather colony,
and from which the Jews were strictly de.
barred. They were dispersed over the world
and for couple of centuries were in their
poverty and obscurity comparatively unmo.
Tested. They flourished in trade and COM
merce, were merchants, artizaus and bank
ers, as well as husbandmen aud and shep-
herds. They were scholars, poets aud pro.
iessors in schools of learning; quiet, unas-
suming aud industrious citizens. But grow
ing in wealth and imnortanpn the acclae;as