The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-11
A QUAKER PROPHECY.
What Was Impaired to Joseph Hoag in a
Remarkable Vision.

What Was Impaired to Joseph Hoag in a
Remarkable Vision.
Keokuk, Ia. Special.
There is large Quaker settlement at Salem.
La. Years ago Joseph Hoag was of their num-
ber He was blest with the gift of visions. and
the Quakers had great faith in him. The most
worthy of these visions was one happening in
South Carolina in 1903 In it was impaired to
Joseph Hoag the knowledge Of the coming war
in the church, and that of the rebellion. Mon
archlal form of government, foundedon religion
and the after events are yet to come. Copies of
this vision are carefully preserved by most every
Quaker family in the vicinity of Salem. From
one of these copies, which the owner declares to
have been in his possession for over thirty years.
Globe Democrat representative secured the
prophecy. 1t is as follows:
I'm the year 1903, probably in the eighth or
ninth month, was one day alone in the field,
and observed the sun shone clear, but a mist
eclipsed the brightness of its shining. AS I
reflected on the singularity of the event, my
mind was clothed with silence, the most
solemn l ever remember My faculties
were laid low and unus ualy brought into
silence. l said to myself: What can all this
meanp l do not remember ever to have been
sensible Of such feelings, and / heard a voice
from heaven saying: This that thou seest. that
dims the brightness of the sun, is a sign of a
present ard coming time. took the fathers of
this country from the land of oppression. 1
planted them here among forests. l blessed
them and sustained them, and while they were
humble fed them, and they became a numer-
Gus people, but they now have become proud
and lifted up, and have forgotten me who nour-
ished and protected them, and are running into
every abominaton and evil practice which the
old country was guilty of, and taking auietude
from the land, and have suffered dividing spirit
to come among them. Lift up thine ewes and
behold. l saw them dividing in great haste
This division began in the church on the points
of doctrine 1t commenced with the Presbyter-
ian society went through various religious de-
nominations, and its progress and close
were nearly the same. Those who d.
vided went off with high heads and
taunting language, and those who kept
original sentiments appeared exercised
and sorrowful, and when the dividing Spirit en-
tered the Society Of Friends it ragged in as high a
degree as in any have before described, and. as
before those who separated went with lofty
looks and haunting, censuring language; those
who kept ancient principles retired to them.
selves.
1T next appeared in the lodges of Free -masons
and set the country in an uproar for a long time
Then it entered politics throughout the United
States, anG it did not stop until it produced a
civil war, and abundance of blood was shed in
the course of the combat. The fourteen States
lost their power, and slavery was annihilated
from their borders.
Then monarchical government arose and
established nation of religion, and made all So
cleties tributary to support its expenses. i was
amazed at beholding all this and heard a voice
but with this power will / chastise my church
until they return to the faithfulness of their
forefathers. Thou seest what is coming in thy
native land for their iniquities and the blood of
Africa, the remembrance OF which has come mn
before me. The vision is yet for many DAYS u