The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-07-10
MARVELs OF PROPHECY.
solving the mystery OF she Pyrau,id..


solving the Mystery OF the Pyranaids.
Every person possesses more or less
superstition. A fortune-teller will
fascinate where the most eloquent divine
will fail. The nation without prophets
is unknown; the individual who will
not shudder when he sees the new moon
over his left shoulder has yet to be
found. George Smith tells us that the
Chaldean tablets reveal many prophe-
cies and superstitions among that an
cient people. The exodus into Egypt
was foretold to Abraham four hundred
years before it occurred. The rebuild
ing of Jerusalem by Cyrus was predicted
to Jonah forty years before it too .
place. The coming of Christ was tn .
fulfllment of prophecy. Christ Him
self predicted the destruction of Jerusa-
lem seventy-four years previous, and
he said there would be signs upon the
sun, moon and stars, and, upon the
earth, distress among the nations, and
that battles would be pictured in the
sky. The false prophet Jesus. son of
Ananus, was foretold, and for seven
years, history tells us, he cried, Woe,
woe to Jerusaleml" without loss Of
speech; and when Jerusalem was about
to be destroyed he cried, Woe to the
city, woe to the Temple, woe to my
SELF" and was struck by missile and
killed. The strongest proof of Christ
being the Messiah was that {" the perfect
coincidence of events with prophecy"
was evidence of the fulfillment Of
prophecy.
When we read the lives of the great
est characters in history, we find scarcely
a great mind free from belief in proph-
ecy. Alexander, Caesar, the Scipios,
Cato, Brutus, Homer, Hannibal, Demos
themes, Plato and Augustus, in ancient
history, and long list OF illustrious
names in modern history, will attest
their belief in prophecy. Spiritual pro-
trusion was believed in by Columbus,
Luther, Swedenborg, Milton, Bacon,
Byron, Shelley and others.
Columbus was firnn believer in proph-
ecy, and applied spiritual interpre-
tation to himself From Roselly de
Lorgue's biography of Columbus, re-
Gently compiled from the Seville manu-
scripts, and not yet, l believe, trans
lated into Eng lish, l quote an incident
narrated by Columbus himself. 1t was
on the occasion of his second voyage,
and after weary hours spent on the
lookout for land, he had thrown him
self prone upon the deck in utter de-
spair. "Then it was" says Columbus,
Il heard familiar voice speaking to
me in compassionate tones: Oh, fool
and unbeliever, who will not serve thy
God; He who hath done more for thee
than for Moses and David; ever since
thou vast born He hath had thee in
charge; as soon as He saw thou hadst
reached the age of thy destiny, He filed
the world with thy fame; the Indies
hath He given for thine own; He
hath given thee the keys of the ocean,
bound as with strong chains before.
Stand up as man and acknowledge
thy error. Thou callest for an uncer-
tain success, yet God hath never been
false to His promise. Surely he will
recompense thee for the fatigue and per.
lis thon hast undergone. Fear not, dc
not complain, for all these tribulations
shall be written in MARBLE At hearing
this, overcome, / could only weep for my
errors"
Napoleon was. one of the most super
stitious Of men. In 1908, General Rapp
returning from the siege of Dantzic
found the Emperor in deep reverie
Napoleon pointed to the sky, and said
"Look up there" to which Rapp made
no reply. "Do you not see itT' he con
tinued. " 1t is my star that is before
you. 1t urges me forward, and is al
unfailing omen of success. I see it al
every great occurrence" Several grea
battles were predicted by Napoleon
and the failure of his star to appeal
before the battle of Waterloo cast owe
him the deepest gloom.
Sayonarola, in 1854, predicted tina
Brescia in a certain year would b,
bathed in blooi. This was fulfilled b,
the French under the Duke de Nemours
in the very year prophesied.
Joan of Arc, when girl twelve year
of age, was the subject of frequent hal
| lucinations. A voice told her tina
clothed as man she would rescue tn
Kingdom of Charles.
In the Rhine country in Germany th,
belief in prophecy is widespread, ant
| it is thought that certain events hay,
been Influenced to fulfilment by tn
| popular belief. The great battle of tn
Birch Tree, near Werl, in Westphalia
which took place in 1914, was predictet
| .a T. y
Of WerI; and in 1872, by Capuchil
Monk OF Dusseldorf. The battle wa
minutely described, and was long tn
superstition of the common people pre-
vious to its fulfllment. The Capuchil
Monk also predicted that Pope ant
four Cardinals would come to reside a
Cologue, which has been fulfilled sine
the publication of the authority quot
from-in 1850 by Plus TX. Anothe
prediction was that William the Power
full Prince" would become Emperor o
Germany, and that France would b
then divided into three parties. Thi
has been fulfilled since 1871.
A remarkable prophecy is given il
Hewitt (1850.) The rise and history O
the royal house of Hohenzollern was &C
curately predicted by Brother Hermann
Monk, who died in 1870 1t was writ
ten in Latin, and described the roya
founder and successive sovereigns of til
Hohenzollern dynasty. One line was
And the Shepherd receives his hock
Germany King" and referred t
the uniting of Germany under on
sovereign. This was TO be William
Jaspers, Westphalian peasant. prs
dicted in 1880 that the last King G
Prussia, to complete his reign, would b