The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
MONKS PROPHECY IN 1900 IS COMING TRUE

ADOut the year 1GO0 Fratre JOnanneS made 8 wonderful prophecy, which, read in the light of present day events causes ones hair to fairly stand on end It appears so true that one can scarcely believe it was written by this old monk, yet a TO less reputable man than Fred erick J. Haskins, director of the we'll known newspaper information bureau in Washington declares the document au- thentc
 MT. Haskins says that this prophecy was discovered on an old parchment in the convent of the Holy Ghost, at Wis mar, in Germany, and is kept under glass in the town hall of that city. There have been numerous translations, the text varying somewhat. It is an in tensely interesting document and should be read. and might well be preserved for future reference. The prophecy is as follows
 The real Antichrist will be one of the monarchs of his time, Lutheran Prot estant. He will invoke God and give himself out as his messenger, or apos- tie. This prince of lies will swear by the Bible. He will represent himself as thesarm of the Most High, sent to chas- tise corrupt peoples. He will have only one arm, but his nnumera lie armies, who will haze for their device the words God is with us,'' will resemble the in fernal regions
 For a long time he will act by craft and strategy. His spikes will overrun the earth, and he will be master of the secrets of the mighty.
 He will have learned men in his pay, who will maintain and undertake to prove his celestial mission.
 A war will afford him the opportunity of throwing off the mask It will not be in the first instance war which he will wage against French monarch But it will be one of such nature that after two weeks, all will realize it's uni versal character
 Not only Christians, but all Mussui- mans and even more distant peoples, will be involved. Armies will be involved from the four quarters of the earth,
 For by the third week the angels will have opened the minds of men, who will perceive that the man is Antichrist and that all will become his slaves if they do not overthrow this conqueror
 Antichrist will be recognized by yari- ous tokens--in special he will massacre the priests, the monks, the women, the children and the aged He will show nc mercy. but will pass, torch in hand, like the barbarians, but invoking Christ His words of imposture will resemble those of Christians. but his vows of all the human race
 s He will have an eagle in his arms. there will also be an eagle in the arms of his confederate. But the latter will be a Christian, and will die from the of Pope Benedict, who will be elected at the beginning of Anti christ.
 In order to conquer Antichrist it will be necessary to kill more men than Rome has ever contained It will need the energies of all the Kingdoms, be- cause the cock, the white leopard and the white eagle will not be able to make an end of the black eagle without the aid of the prayers and the vows of the human race.
 Never will humanity have been faced with such peril, because the triumph of the Antichrist will be that of the demon, who will take possession of his personality.
 For it has been said that 20 centuries after the incarnation of the world the beast will be incarnate In his turn, and will menace the world with as many evils as the divine incarnaton has brought 1t graces.
 Toward the 20Oo, Antichrist will be made manifest. His army will surpass In numbers anything that can be imagined. There will be Christians among his cohorts and there will be Mohammadans among the defenders of the lamb, as well as some heather soldiers
 For the first time the lamb will be red. for Hood will flow in the domins of the four clements 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 itc claws. The black eagle, who will come from the land of Luther. will make a surprise attack upon the cock. The white eagle will come from the north.
 The black eagle will find itself forc- ed to let go of the cock in order to fight the white eagle, whereupon the cock will have to pursue the black eagle in- to the land of the Antichrist to aid the white eagle.
 The battle fought up to that time will be as nothing compared to that which will take place in the Lutheran country When the beast finds himself lost he will become furious. Men will be able to cross rivers over the bodies of the dead.
 Antichrist will sue for peace many times, but the seven angels, who march before the three animals of the lamb, will proclaim that victory will not be given except on the condition that AptichriSt shall he errSbad l;ka ctrax