Evening star., 1904-03-17
CALAMITY PREDICTED
PROPHET JONES YoRETELLS DIS.
AsTER FOR CAPITAL CITY.
Unable to State Whether by Fire or
Flood, but Says Ruin
Will Fellow.

more dreadful than the fire in Baltimore
or the flood at Johnstown is soon to be
visited upon Washington. The beautiful
buildings, which have become worid-Ia-
nous, are to be destroyed, and the sinful
people who live in the shadows OF the city
are to be punished by the relentless hand
Of God. So says the Rev. Andrew Jones,
sage, high priest and prophet, who Is visit
ing Washington and Is conducting series
of services at the Virginia Avenue Baptist
Church, 1st and H streets southwest.
Prophet Jones Is a veteran in the helo
of forecasting AS a medium through
which supernatural visions are translated
to the less-gifted members Of modern So
ciety he ranks among the first. He Is a
seer of no mean merit, and in consequence
it is not surprising that his prophetic words
have stirred the devout Baptists of South
Washington and caused fear and trembling
to come upon them in the night time.
deed, amt superstsush" said an OLD
nanny, after one of the prophets S dls-
courses, but somehow nah sins Is worry
in me mo- den dey hev in long, long
WHILE"
Revealed in Visions.
This impending destruction of the city of
Washington is the result of a series of
Jones since the first Of this month His
third vision came Tuesday night, and has
impressed him even more than his former
visions have impressed his hearers. He
sees a great calamity. He says the people
of Washington are sinful, and have In
Cured the displeasure of the Almighty.
Whether the capital city is to be deluged
with water and it's inhabitants drowned in
it's turbid depths or swept by fire and It's
hundreds of thousands of residents incin-
Grated, he is not sure. He goes no further
than to announce a great destruction
Suffice 1t to say that in case of Hood, II
is said he believes the good will gather to-
gether on an ark of some considerable
magnitude, with a modern Noah at the
helm. Should the destruction be caused by
fire. the good, like Shadrach, Meshach and
Abednego, will walk back and forth
through the flames with their hair un-
singed and their garments unscorched 4
This much of Prophet Jones' visions is or
particular Importance to Washington and
it's people, and they are exhorted to guide
themselves accordingly. But the seer goes
further in announcing that subsequent to
the great calamity which is in store for
the capital of the nation, New York, Phila-
delphia and other of the wicked cities will
suffer a fate like unto that which visited
Sodom, the sinful city of old.
Others Under the Ban.
Judge Lynch, and that vast army of al
legged unprincipled people who take the law
in their own hands, are also under the ban
of Prophet Jones' visions. The prophet
says God has become weary of this lawless-
ness on the part of his people, and will ad-
monish them with calamities according to
the degree of their offense.r AS the annals
of the city of Washington don't say very
much about lynching bees, the local popu-
lace Is somewhat more at ease than when
the general subject of sin is under discus
sion.
Prophet Jones has had visions before,
which, he says, have told him of most all
the dreadful calamftiss recorded in the
history of the country. In this way he
claims to have predicted the Johnstown
flood, in all its horrors, years before that ter
rlble catastrophe was a matter of fact.
The devastating cyclone which swept the
vicinity of st. Louis many years ago was
amply foretold by this able prophet and in
1856 the people of Charleston, s. c.,
were warned that a great earthquake i'm
pended. The floods of Kansas City, Kan,
and Kansas City, Mo-, were faithfully pre-
dicted, he says.
More remarkable than all of this, the
prophet says, he had vision in January,
1898, showing Baltimore in the grasp of
the flames. He saw the best portion of the
business district fall as m ght the walls OF
a paper city. The prophet, in his wisdom,
rejoices in that reputation which has en-
abied him, after every great calamity
which has visited the country in recent
years, to say Il told you So" There are
hundreds of people in South Washington
who, like the old nanny, are not super
stitious but their sins are causing them a
mighty lot of worry