Weekly journal-miner., 1917-11-07
OLD PROPHECY IS NOW BEING
 FULFILLED
WAR AND PRIN CIPAL FIGURES IN IT FORE CASTED WITH REMARK ABLE ACCURACY BY A GERMAN MONK.

The Jolly Elk reproduccs the fol-
 lowing regarding the present war,
 which is now believed to be nearing
 complete fulhllment. The authenticity
 of this prophecy, made by Monk
 Fratre Johannes, was at first doubted
 because of few discrepancies in the
 text, but the matter was referred to the newspaper information bureau at
 Washington, and Director Frederick J. HasKins replied as follows:
 In reply to your letter asking whether the prophecy by the monk,
 Fratre Johannes, is real, we would say this prophecy was discovered in old parchment in the Covenant of the Holy Ghost, at Wismar, in Germany, and is kept under glass in the town hall of this city. There have been numerous translations which text vary somewhat. We are returning you copy of this prophecy.
 "The discrepancies which we noted, and which you may also notice arc probably due to the variations in the translation of the text. On the whole | 1t is a remarkable prophecy. It is as follows"
 The real Antichrist will be one of the monarchs of his time, Lutheran Protestant. He will invoke God and give out His messenger, or apostle.
 This prince of lies will swear by the Bible. He will represent himself as the arm of the Most High, sent to chastisc corrupt peoples.
 He will have only one arm, but his innumerable armies, who will take for their device the words, God is with us" will resemble the internal regions.
 For long time he will act by | craft and strategy. His spies will overrun the earth, and he will be master of secrets of the mighty. He i; will have learned men in his pay, who will maintain and undertake to prove his celestial mission.
 \ war will afford him the oppor- tunity of throwing off the mask It will not be in the first instance war which he will wage against a French | monarch. But 1t will be one Of such l nature that after two weeks all will realize its universal character
 Not only Christians, but Messcl- mans and even more distant peoples will be involved. Armies will be in volved from the four quarters of the earth.
 For the third week the angels will perceive that the man is Anti-Christ and that all will become his slaves if they do not overthrow this conqucror.
 Antichrist will be recognized by various token - in special he will massacre the priests, the monks, the women, the children, and the aged. He will show no mercy, but will pass torch in hand, like the barbarians, but invoking Christ
 His words of imposture will re- scmblc those of Christians, but his vows of all the human race.
 He will have an eagle in his arms, there will also be an eagle in the arm. of his confederate. But the latter will be Christian. and will die from the malcdiction of Pope Benedict who will De elected at the beginning of the reign of Antichrist.
 In order 10 conquer Antichrist, it will be necessary to kill more men than Rome ever contained. It will need the energies of all the kingdoms because, the Leopard and the White Eagle will not be able to make an end of inc Black Eagle without the aid of the prayers and the vows of the human race.
 Never will humanity have been faced with such a peril, because the triumph of the Antichrist would be that of the demon, who will have taken possession of his personality
 For 1t has been said that 20 cen turics after the incarnation of Word [ the beast will be incarnatcd in his , turn and will menace the world with as many evils as the Divine Incarna- ton has brought it graccs
 Towards the 2,0O0 AntichriSt will be made manifest His army will sur , pass in number anything that can be imagined. There will be Christians , among his cohorts and there will be Mohammcdans among the defenders , of the Lamb as we'll as some heather 
 For the first time the Lamb will be blood will flow in the do- mains of the four elephants at once {
 The Black Eagle will hurl itself upon the Cock, which will lose many , feathers It will soon be exhausted, { but for the Leopard and its claws |
 The Black Eagle, who will come from the land of Luther, will make ( surprise attack upon the Cock ?
 The White Eagle will come from r the North '
 The Black Eagle will ind itself $ forced to let go the Cock in order to d fight the White Eagle, whcrcupon the a Cock will have to pursue the Black I