The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-13
SALT LAKE CITY SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 49, 1881

ton of the common people previous
to its fulfllment. The CapuchiI
monk also predicted that pope anC
= four cardinals would come to reside
Q at Cologne, which has been fulfilled
since the publication of the author
lty quote from-in 1870 by Plus
lA Another prediction was thai
D William, 1.-THE powerful prince,
& would become Emperor of Germany
D and that France would be then di-
yIded into three parties. This has
been fulfilled since 1871.
>, a remarkable prophecy is given
In Hewitt (1S50) The rise and
history OF the royal house of Hohen-
ZOllern was accurately predicted by
Brother Hermann, a monk, Whu
died in 1910. 1t was written in La
tin, and described the royal founder
and successive soyereigns of the
Hohenzollern dynasty. One line
was: "And the Shepherd receives
his flock, Germany king" and re-
ferred to the uniting of Germany un-
der one sovereign. This was to be
William.
JaSpers, a Westphalian peasant
| predicted in 1880 that the last King
Of Prussia, to complete his reign.
would be Frederick William ",
who became King in 1S40, and that
his successor would be a William,
who would be last King of Prussia
and first Emperor of Germany.
| William i, assembled the Prussian
throne in 1861, and in 1871, twenty
one years after my authority was
published, became Emperor. Jaspers
also predicted the Crimean war and
the building of the Cologne-Minden
Railroad.
AT dinner party given six years
prior to the French revolution,
| during a great deal of testing about
prophecy, NJ. Gazette, the eminent
poet, arose, and, looking seriously
at one of the guests, made a predic-
ton as to his future. This excited
much merriment, although his man
ner was strangely serious. He con-
tinued, and told NJ. Condorcet that
he would die stretched ON The floor
of dungeon from poison taken to
avoid the block. He said De Cham
fort would open his veins with
twenty-five razor cuts, that De
Nicolai would die on the scaffold,
and also De Malesherbes, and that
the Duchess De Grammont would
go to the scaffold in an executioner's
cart. He added that the King would |
be guillotined and would be the only |
one allowed a confeSsor. His words |
caused much embarrassment TO |
those who were addressed, and the |
party broke up in great confusion.
These events took place exactly as
they were predicted.
Robert Nixon, in 1867, predicted |
various events IN English history.
These were the fire and plague of
London, the death of Cromwell, the
coming of William, Prince of Orange,
and the accession of the Georges.
Lady Cooper published book many
years after, verifying the fulfllment
of his predictions.
One of the most famous of Eng
lish prophets was, William Lilly, a
profound astrologist and educated
gentleman, who flourished about
1850. He published many remark
able prophecies, and having pre-
dicted the fire and plague of London,
in a book printed in 1861, was
brought before Parliament after the
event He said his predictions were
based on the CONFORMATION of the
heavenly bodies, and that this same
prediction had been made by Nos
tradamus Ill years previous, who
said, 1.-THE blood of the just which
has been split in London requires
it to be burned with fire in l666."
In Lilly's book are two cuts made to
illustrate his predictions. The first
cut is intended to represent a great
mortality, in which the number Of
deaths should so far exceed the
supply of collins that the dead must
needs be buried in their shroudS, or
stitched up in sheets. The second is
an astrological hieroglyphic, the
horoscope at the left being intro
duced, and the two children are
Gemini, which in astrology rule
London. Their falling into the fire
describes the injury that London
was to suffer fifteen years after.
In a book published 100 years ago
1 find several strange prophecies,
made in a sermon preached by a
Rev. John Gill. He predicted the
destruction of the power of Spain
and Portugal, the wars between
Italy and France and Austria, the
destruction of the temporal power
of the Pope, and the fall of the
Turkish empire, which was to make
a I7ay for the Christian empire in
Persia and Tartary. The Cyprus
protectorate alone makes this last
possible.
The above examples are intended
to illustrate the fact that prophecies
have been made and fulfilled in COM
paratiyely recent times, and what
follows relates more nearly to my
subject. l have been careful to eX-
anime undoubted authorities to
verify these predictions, and have
found in every case that they were
respectfully attested. In the course
of great deal of patient research |
have found many hundreds of
prophecies, giving dates and de-
Scribing events, but, singular TO say.
l can find none in any literature eX-
tending beyond the year 1881. a
class of theolOgians who have made |
scriptural Interpretation special
study assert that all prophecies but |
the final one seem to have been full |
filled, and do not extend beyond this |
time. 1t would appear as if many |
prophecies led up to this period, but |
none beyond. If they exist it has
been my misfortune not to find them.
10 be co1ltinued)
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