The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-15
BY O. c. RUTHRAUFF.
(Continated.)

(Continued.)
The most celebrated of moder
prophets is no doubt Mothe
Shipton. The assertion has bee
made, and widely copied, that she
a myth, but, fortunately, there exist
evidence to prove the contrary. i
a work entitled Memoirs of Extra
ordinary Popular Decisions" b
| Charles Mackey, 1852, occurs th
| following:
"An eyewitness Of the great fir
| of London, in an account preserve.
among the Herleyan MSS, in thu
British Museum, and published il
the transactions of the Royal Society
of Antiquarians, relates another
instance of the credulity of the
Londoners. The writer, who &C
companied the Duke of York day By
day through the district included
between Fleet street and the
Thames, states that in their efforts
to check the progress of the flames
they were much impeded by the
superstition of the people. Mother
Shipton, liz one of her prophecies
had said that London would be
reduced to ashes, and they refused to
make any efforts to prevent il"
The prophecy referred to is:
"When fate to England shall restore
A King to reign as heretofore,
Great death in London shall be though,
And many houses be laid low"
"The prophecies of Mother Shipton
are still believed in many of the
rural districts of England. Ii. cot
tages and servants halls her lepu-
tation is great. She was born at
Knaseborough in 14s6, and old
chronicles say she sold her soul to
the devil for the power of predic-
ting future events. Though looked
upon as a witch, she did not share a
witch's fate, but died peacefully.
A stone was erected to her memory
in Clifton, Yorkshire, bearing these
words:
"Here lies she who never lied
r Whose skill often has been tried;
Her prophecies shall still survive,
And ever keep her name alive"
Never a day passed that she did
not relate something wonderful,
and that required the most serious
consideration. People flocked from
far and near, her fame was so great.
Among the rest went the Abbot of
Beverly, to whom she foretold the
suppression of the monasteries by
Ilnnrsu 1ai. rrrffh
Anne Boleyn, the fires for heretics
in Smithfeld and the execution of
Mary, Queen of Scots. She also fore
told the accession of James l.,
adding that with him
From the cold North
Kvery evil should come forth
"But the most famous of her
prophecies is one relating to Lon
don. Thousands of persons still
shudder to think of the woes that
are to burst over this unhappy realm
when London and Highate are
joined by one continuous line of
houses. When this takes place
Mother Shipton predicts revolutions,
the fall of mighty monarchs, and
the shedding of much blood. The
very angels, afflicted by our woes,
are to turn aside their heads and
weep for hapless Britain"
This was written by Mackay in
1852, and London and Highate were
not then joined. The junction is
about completed now.
An old lady, now resident in
Georgia, says that she remembers
hearing of Mother Shipton when a
child on Prince Edwards Island.
Especially does she remember the
prediction that England should be
lost, won, and lost again, when three
Kings horses heads should be held
together on Blackfriar's Bridge"
and that during the visit paid by
the allied Kings to the Regent,
George ", their three horses heads
were held together on the bridge
that day, and great question in
parliament was decided.
Mother SIMPSONS best-known pro-
phecies, are these:
"Great accidents the world will fill,
And carriages without horses go, a
While in the twinkling of an eye
Around the world our thoughts shall hy."
''In England now shall come to pass
a house that shall be built of glass"
''In the water. shall iron float,
The same as now q wooden boat;
More wonders still shall water do,
And England yet admit jew"
"Gald and riches viii be shown
In e land that's not now known"
"Under rivers men shall walk,
Shall tide, shsll sleep, and shall talk
| The world to an end shall come,
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one."
There is a widespread BELIZE
among the Shakers that the yeal
1881 is to be full of mighty conse
quences to the world, and many OF
the Shakers are strong believers il
Mother Shipton, however, only a:
corroborative of their own views
Even since Mother Ann Lee "fle(
Into the wilderness" for "a time
times and a half" the belief has beer
entertained that in 100 years from
that time and ga time, times and ;
half three and One-half years
would come a great change. Ehi
would accordingly be the year 1881
1.-THE Shakers believe that the worl'
will suddenly be converted +
Shakerism, and that the Millennis
will begin. They even claim t
have received communications froI
1.-The spirit world giving out that tn
end was approaching, when tn
seventh vial would be poured on
upon Satan and sin.
In the year 1854 very singula
book made its appearance with tn
title of "Armageddon; or, the Unite
States in Prophecy" The autho
Rev. 5. ID. Baldwin, was a remarl
ably able and eloquent divine, an
, for number of years was presidel
lof Soule Female College, in Tenne
lsee. He was a close student of Il
scriptures and made their interpr
tations the study of life time. T
died many years ago.
Mr.. Baldwin's assumption is, TIL
the United States is the restore
Israel of prophecy, and that Il
millennium will begin in the Unit
States some time subsequently
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