The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-02-12
LOCAL NEWS
JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIES
PROPHECY CONCERNING THE
EUROPEAN WAR


prophet, is by ascertaining which ones
prophecies are fulfilled It can not be
successfully denied that John Alexander
DOWie, the founder under God of Zion.
was Divinely-commissio Messenger
and Prophet of God, as is evidenced by
the following prophecy uttered by him,
nearly fourteen years ago, and which,
because of the present awful carnage in
the world, is especially relevant at this
time:
'It is inevitable! Religious, Educa-
tional, Commercial and Political Chaos,
will come to the world outside of Zion.
'Any one without any gift of proph-
ecy whatever, who is simply close and
clear observer of things as they are, and
of the Signs of the Times, must see that.
Beware, O men of blood, everywhere,
beware
"Kaiser Wilhelm, you can mass your
millions of men, and, perhaps, in a Sec
ond and third line, several millions more,
but what have you done?
1.-The Russians number 100, 900, 900
now The French and their allies will
stand with them.
'In a few years, if Russia is allowed
to go on unchecked, she will march down
through Manchuria, and, annexing that
vast province by diplomacy and trickery
and chicanery and fraud, which are her
constant weapons, will take Pekin, and
rule the hundreds of millions in North
ern China, down to the English sphere
of influence to the Yang-tse-Kiang.
"She will endeavor to annex Corea.
"She will add millions of Chinese to
her armies, and, with the fleets and
armies of France, will pour hordes of
armed men upon the rest of Asia and
upon Europe, carrying death and desc
lation and disease and decentralization in
their path of destruction.
"When that takes place, where are
you, Kaiser Wilhelm? * * *
"It is true that, commanding the seas,
and with salmost inexhaustible agricul-
tural, mineral and financial resources,
the Anglo-Saxon races can keep the
peace If they choose, between them
selves, and for the better part of the
world; but nothing but their throwing
! themselves into the arms of the King
dom of God will save the nations outside.
''The Chaos must come.
"It will come in Asia.
"It will come on the Continent of
Europe.
"It will come in part of Africa.
"It will come wherever the Anglo
Saxon civilization and power are domi-
nant.
"Chaotic disorder will follow victory
in war, no matter which side it is on.
''Whether the Emperor of Germany,
with the aid of the northern Scandinav-
an powers and Holland, could crush Rus
sia and France and all their power in
Asia, is very doubtful question.
''The doubt is so great that every one
who knows the situation knows that if
Germany retains her own independence
in the face of such combination, it will
be all that she can do.
"But after the clash of arms, whoever
wins, Chaos will follow-Chaos in Re
+! ligion in Education, in Commerce, in
Politics.
millions will be destroyed.
"Rivers of blood will flow.
'"The young, strong, fairest men will
be killed.
"Old men and women principally will
be left, until, as in some countries now
in Europe, you have degenerate popu-
lation, and you must go back to the
Napoleonic wars to find the reason.
"But the Napoleonic wars were as
nothing compared to the wars about to
break out, when thousands of shots can
be fired from one gun in minute; when
masses of men will fall as they never fell
before, under the influence of deadly
gases.
"Do you think that this balloon ex-
perimentation is simply observation?
"It is no such thing.
'Some army will float it's balloons
away up in the air and let the dynamite
and other destructive agents fall upon
them and destroy cities and armies.
''The Divine powers of science, mis-