Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-06
WILL 1T BE A MONARCHY?
A Prediction by Vision Seen by Qua
ker Preacher In 1903.


DOVER, N. H., May 1.-Joseph Hoag
was celebrated Quaker preacher of New
Hampshire. His business, which was
that Of a farmer, he pursued with dill
gence and success. One day while at
work in his field he had remarkable
vision, during which he said he received
a revelation from heaven. He kept it to
himself for some time, but it at length be-
came such burden to him that he wrote
an account of it. This was first pub
lished in New Hampshire paper of that
date, and the vision became a topic of
general discussion in the New England
Quaker communities.
The following is the account of the vision
as written by Mr.. Hoag himself:
The remarkable prophecy of Joseph
HOag. In the year 1893, in the eighth or
ninth month, l was one day alone in the
field and observed that the sun shone clear,
but mist eclipsed its brightness. AS ]
reflected upon the singularity of the event
my mind was struck into silence the most
solemn l ever remembered to have wit
messed, for all my faculties were slow and
nature was brought into deep silence. l
said to myself, What can all this mean?
sensible of such feelings, and heard a
voice from heaven. saying: This which
thou seest is sign of the coming times.
| took the fOrefatners of this country from
a land of expressions; | planted them
here among the people of the forest, and
wnile they were humDle l blessed them
ard fed them. and they became a numer-
Gus people. But they have now become
proud and have forgotten me, who nOur-
fah bc Il
ness, and are now running into every
abomination and every practice of which
the old countries were guilty, and have
taken gratitude from the land and suffered
a dividing spirit to come among them.
Lift up thine eyes and beholdW
l saw them dividing in great heat. The
division began in the churches on points
OF doctrine. 1t commenced in the Pres
byterian society and went through the
various religious denominations, and in
its progress and close its effects were the
same. Those who 1lssented went off with
high heads and tauuting language, and
those who kept to thoir original sentiments
appeared exercised and sOrrOWful, and
when the dividing spirit entered the So
ciety Of Friends IL ragged in as high a de-
gree as many l had noticed or before dis
covered, and, as before. those who sep
arated went of with lofty looks and
tsuntipg. censuring language. Those
who kept their ancient principles retired
by themselves. 1t next appeared in the
lodges of the Free Masons. and it broke
out in appearance like volcano, mas
much as it set the country in an uprOar
for a time.
Then it entered politics throughout the
United States, ana it did NOT stop until it
produced a civil war. An abundance of
blood was shed in the course of the COM
bat, the Southern States lost their power,
and slavery was annihilated from their
borders. Then mOnarcbial power eprang
up, took the government of the States
took national reli2iOn and made all
tributary to support its expenses. ! saw
/ them take property from Friends. / was
amazed at behOlding all of this, and heard
voice proclaim; "This power shall not
/ always stand, but with it will chastis
my church until they return TO the faith
fulaess of their foref2thers." Thou see'st
what is coming upon thy native country
for its iniquities and the blood Of Africa,
. the remembrance Of which comes up be-
fore me.