Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-01-10
A Prophecy of the Great War

HTSl printed Tie ISIIldIhdOlS 1OSdAiSie
below, which was published in the Paris
Figaro, and is a prophecy written in
1000 by a monk whose name was
Brother Johannes. So many requests
have come for its reproduction that it
is given herewith:
The veritable Antichrist will be a
monarch of his time, a son Of Luther,
he will invoke Gods name, and pro-
claim himself his enemy, this prince OF
his will take his oath on the Bible, and
will exploit himself as the arm OF the
Most High, sent TO chastise the cor
rupted people of the world. He will be
ne-armed, but his army, which will be
as the sands of the seashore, will take
for their device, God with u.s." For a
long while he will carry out his policy,
by ruse, or by felony; his spies will
cover the countries of the world, he will
be master of the DEGREES of the powerful.
He will have in his pay doctors and
professors, who will prove and certify
his celestial mission. War will give
him an opportunity to disclose himself.
This will not be made against French
wing, but another well-known, and it
will be so violent that in two weeks the
conflict will become universal 1t will
draw in all Christian people, MuSsul-
mans, and even men from distant lands.
The armies will gather from the four
quarters of the world, for the angels
will open the souls of men, and in the
third week they will realize that Anti
christ has come and that slavery will
be the fate of the conquered. He will
be recognized by several traits. He will
massacre, above all, priests, monks,
women, children and old men. To none
will he show mercy. Torch in hand,
he will pass like a savage, invoking the
name of Christ, and, while his words
are those of Christian, his acts will
be the acts of Nero and his Roman
prosecutors.
He will have an eagle for his arms,
and the eagle will be the crest of his
accomplice, the other wicked monarch.
This latter, however, is Christian,
and will die with the curse of Pope
Benedctus, who will be elected at the
outbreak of Antichrist.
No more will priest and monk confess
and absolve the combatants; for the
first time in the worlds history they
will take their places in the combat
with other citizens, and Pope Benedictus
having pronounced his maledction upon
Antichrist, his holiness will proclaim
that those who fall in battle will rise
as martyrs.
The bells will resound throughout the
world, giving courage to the soldiers,
and sounding the knell of Antchrist's
accomplce. To vanquish Antichrist will
require more men than Rome ever held.
The efforts of every kingdom, "the
cock" "the leopard" and the "white
eagle" will not avail, without the pray
ers of the Christian world assist them.
Never will the human race have met
so great a peril, for the triumph of
Antichrist would be the victory Of the
devil.
1t will come to pass in the twentieth
century, after the incarnation of the
Word, that the beast will menace the
earth with its scourge. Towards the
two thousandth year the great army of
AntichriSt, numbering in it ranks some
vino are Christians, will oppose the
armies of the Lamb, with whom will
fight Mohammedans and Savage" SOL
diers. All will be blood-red, the heav-
ems, the earth, the sea, the air, for blood
will flow in all the elements.
The "black eagle" will hurl itself
against the cock" and rob it of many
plumeS. but the "cock" will fight gall
lantly with its talons 1t would be
crushed but for the claws of the
leopard" The "black eagle" will sur
prise and invade the land of the COCK"
covering almost half of its territory;
while the white eagle" in its turn will
overrun the realm of Antchrist from
boundary TO boundary. Then the "black
eagle" will be forced to leave the "cock"
TO engage the white eagle; the "cock"
will pursue it to give aid to its ally.
When the "black eagle" sees all is lost
it will grow furious, and the white
eagles" beak, the 'leopard's" claw and
the cocks" talons will be buried in
its flesh.
Rivers will run blood, and only the
princes and captains will be buried The
dead piled high, will seem like hills and
divert the streams from their course.
In the carnage the brave will fall and
those who survive the battle will sue
cumb to pestilence and famine. Several
times will Antichrist seek to make
peace, but the seven angels that march
before the Lamb have decreed that only
with his determination can peace be re-
stored. "He shall be crushed like a
straw under the fail" He shall lose
his crown, and his kingdom shall be
split into p states, and none shall pos
SeSS either arms, or ship, or stronghold.
The white eagle" shall trace the
crescent out of Europe and install him
self in his abode. Then shall Begin the
era of peace and prosperity The Lamb
shall reign and the JOY of humanity be-
gin. Happy, he who, escaping the perils
of this wonderful period, may taste the
fruit of the reign of the Spirit and the
Sanctifcation of humanity, which cannot
be accomplished save by the destruc-
ton of Antichrist
The symbolic leopard" may cause
some difficulty in Identification, but the
leopard" is we'll known in British her
aldry. The Gallo cock" on the other
hand, is quite familiar, and the eagles"
are easily recognizable-Editor)
General Gorgas often visits Philadel-