The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-07

IL you Will please examine the
prophecy you will find sill the things
50 vaguely referred to in the poem
had already come to pass in 1852
when Hendley composed it. Oh
course he could prophecy things
that had already taken place. Please
note where the fake comes in, fol
when he attempted to prophecy the
end of the world in 1881 he fell
down on his job and it was the only
thing in the whole alleged prophecy
that he did not know all about be.
forehand and he utterly failed in
this.
Hendley could not even look ahead
II years and tell anything new
Mother Shipton no doubt knew
nothing about it. and certainly MIR
Hendlev did not know, nor does any
other mortal know-it is Gods Job
and he keeps his own counsel, and
in good time we will know, even as
we are known. Still there are peo-
pie today who pin their faith to
Mother Shipton's prophecy and any
failure is attributed to little mis-,
calculation. No prophecy is too big
or too false for some people to swal-
low, and many takers, knowing the
weakness of their fellow-men, have
sprung just such hoaxes as Hendley
did in England in 1862.
But there are others RIGHT NOW,
a most ingenious prophecy based al
together on figures, is going the
rounds and many people are taking
it for gospel truth because they
have been told that figures camille,
but as matter Of fact figures can
be made to lie worse than the kai-
ser. and that is the limit. Now let
US figure little. President Wilson
was born in 1855, he took his Office
in 1918, he has been in office four
years and has lived 81 years. Add
these numbers together and you get
the magic total of 1884.
Now take the King of England; he
was born in 1865, he ascended the
thTonein 1910, he has reigned seven
years and has lived So years. Add !
ing these numbers together we hayeI
the magical number just ttlesaH1e, = +
1884. Why do we call this number
aaagicel2 Y ell, since PRESIDENT. Viii /
son rules IN one hemfsp sphere and /
King George in the other we will
divide the magic number by 2 and
we get the number 1917, which
proves" that the war will come to
an end this year. People were going
about armed with weapons of de-
tense, trying to convince credulous
people and prove that the war would
come to an end in 1917. Well. did
it? 1 should say not. And where
does the prophecy come in? Let us
90 little further-let us take the
King of Italy. He was born in 1889,
he ascended the throne IN 1900
reigned II years and has lived 48
years. Add these figures together
and again we have 1884 and the
half of it is 1917. Just the same,
and some people are foolish enough
to attach any significaL &c or impor
lance to any part Of it, as the whole I
thing is merely a mathematical
and is plain. There is
nothing strange or magical about it.
Taking the year the ruler was born
and adding the years he has lived :
will necessarily bring us to the year
1917. And also taking the year he
.ook the office and adding the years ;
ne has been in office we will also {
let 1917, and thet two together make t
he number 1884 This is all there s
8 magical about it and there is
lotbing more magical about any of
he alleged prophecies that are made
IS to future events, which no human
1eing is in any position to foresee.
Let us try again. Another proph- {
ICY very cleverly juggles with the
late of the kaiser's birth and works t
t up in combination with scripture I
passages and reaches the equally {
certain conclusion that the war \
would end Jan. 27, 1918-another
axe prophecy.
In Revelations we find that he t
number of the beast (which is of
course Kaiser Wilhelm) is six hun. ,
ired, three score and six, that is 666
md the power was given to him TO /
make war forty and two months. t
Vow 666 months are equal to 55H i
,ears. Kaiser Wilhelm was born '
Ian. 27, 1859, and if we add 55A e
,ears to this date We get July 9th, t
914, the date of the beginning of +
he war, but that is not all. The "
,east was to have power, to make t
var for AZ months, and if we add i
z months to the time the War t
tarted we will get Jan. 27, 1913. e
ubich -wo,1ld bv this prODhecY be q