Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-01-25
IS THE KAISER'S
END FORETOLD?
A Commentator on the Thir-
teenth Chapter of Revelations
Says the German Rulers
Days Will End Jan. 27.

the Rev. Cary Montague, Rector o.
st. Barnabas' Episcopal church, Of
Davis, V Va, has created some in
terest and we publish it herewith by
Recently my attention was called
request:
to the 18th chapter of the Book OF
Revelations as applying to the pres
ent world conditions. l have always
looked upon Bible prophecies as be-
ing either too deep or too vague to be
applied accurately to our own times
so | began my investigation with lit
tie OF no enthusiasm, but the more
read this chapter and compared
it with events at present and of the
past three years the more l became
interested, and now 1 offer the fol-
lowing notes, not as prophet, but
merely as commentator, hoping
tina your readers will investigate for
themselves and correct me if 1 am
wrong in any of my statements:
Verse l reads. "And l stood upon
the sands of the sea and saw n beast
rise up out of the sea having even
heads and ten horns and upon his
horns ten crows and upon his head
the name of blasphemy."
Reference to any encyclopedia will
show that "The German Empire is
composed of the following twenty-six
states and divisions: The Kingdoms
of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, and
Wurttemburg, the grand duchies of
Baden, Hesse, Mecklenberg- -Scherin,
Mecklenburg Strelitz, Oldenburg and
Saxeweimer; the duches of Anhalt,
Brunswick, Saxe-Altenburg, Sax-Co-
burg-Gotha, and Sake -Meininen; the
principalitics of LcppeDetmold,
Rousse-Griez, Reuss- -Schlciz, Scham-
burg-Lippe, Schwarzburg-S -Sondershau.
sen, ScharZburgR Rudolstadt and the
Waldcck-Prymont; the free towns of
Bremen, Hamburg, and Lubbock and
the imperial territory Of Alsace-Lor-
raine. Enc. Brit, Vo. II, page sos.
Add to these free states Germany's
colonial possessions as another class
of political diviions and we find an
empire composed of 81 parts. The
beast, too, had 81 parts-7 heads, 10
horns and 10 crowns.
Verse 2 describes the beast giving
him the brutality of the bear, the
bloodthirstiness of the lion, and the
deceit and treachery of the leopard;
all of which characteristics have been
shown by the worlds enemies in this
present war
Verse 3 reads: "And l saw one of
his heads as it were wounded to
death and the deadly wound was
healed"
1t is well known that the Kaiser
has been operated on for cancer of
the thoat, which is usally deadly
disease, but he has recovered.
Verse s.: "And there was given
him a mouth, speaking great things
and blasphemy, and power was given
unto him to continue forty and two
months"
Great things and blasphemy! What
better description could there be of
the Kaiser's speeches, when he tells
his troops that they are the chosen
of God, and that he is Gods vice
regent, and then he sends forth his
soldiers to rob and rape, pillage and
burn an innocent neutral country like
Belgium and his diplomats to lie and
deceive.
Verses 6, z, s, 8, and 10 are de-
scriptive of Germany's early success
es in the war, and the fate which
awaits her.
Verses II and 12: "And 1 beheld
another beast coming out of the
earth, and he had two horns like a
lamb and he spake as dragon.
"And he exercised all the power of
the first beast before him and caused
the earth and them which dwell there
in to worship the first beast whose
deadly wound was healed"
Austria-Hungary, the ally Of Ger
many, is an empire composed of two
kingdoms, often known as the dual
monarchy: as, st. John puts it "hav-
ing two horns as a lamb" Her part
in the war has been that of the un-
derstudy of Germany, the willing tool
of the Kaiser. Her troops have been
at his disposal; she began the war
when he really was ready in accord
ance with his wishes (see Gerards
letters); in other words, "she caus-
eth the earth and them that dwell
therein to worship the first beast"
Also Austria Hungary is almost a
land-locked empire. AS st. John says,
"she cometh up out of the earth,''
and not out of the sea, as the first
beast.
Verse 13: "And he doeth great
wonders, so that he maketh fire come
down from heaven on the earth in
the sight of men,"
The Germans troops were the first