Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-24
PROPHECY OF Three
HUNDRED YEARSAGO
AND PRESENT War
Prediction Credited to BRO
ther Johannes Is Again
Reprinted.

Since the outbreak of the war in Eu-
rope, considerable interest has been tax
n throughout the country in the pro-
pheey made some 800 years ago by
Brother Johannes, and since the United
States has become involved in the con-
fliet, local people are watching devel-
lopments with keen interest, and com
Iparing events with those as foretold
in the prophecy, a copy of which has
Ebeen presented to the Capital Journal
with request for its publication. We
know nothing about its authenticity,
or where it originated. The prophecy
follows:
Part Of an extraordinary Latin pre-.
lphecy made by Brother Johannes in the
year 1900 is quoted in a recent issue
of the Figaro Evening Standard. In
deciphering the allegory, it must be
remembered that.
France is represented by a Cock;
England by Leopard;
Russia by q White Eagle;
Germany by Black Eagle; and
Austria by the "other Eagle;"
while the Lamb stands for Justice,
Mercy and Truth.
"Towards the year 1000 the Anti
christ will manifest himself. His army
will snpass in numbers all that can
be imagined.
"There will be Christians among his
legions, and there will be Nohamme
dams and savage soldiers among the
defenders of theLamb.
"For the first time the Lamb will
be all red. There will not be a single
spot in the Christian world that will
not be red, and red will he the Heavens,
the Earth, the Waters, and even the
Air, for blood will flow in the domains
of the four elements at ouce.
"The Black Eagle will throw him
self on the Cock, who will lose many
feathers, but will strike back heroically
with his spurs. He soon would be
crushed were it not for the help Of
the Leopard and his claws.
"The Black Eagle will come from
the country of Luther, will surprise
the Cock from another side, and will
invade the country Of the Cock up
to the middle OF IT,
"The White Eagle, coming from the
north, will surprise the Black Eagle
and the 'other Eagle and will invade
the country of the Anti-christ from
one end to another.
'"The Black Eagle will see himself
forced to hberate the Cock in order
to fight the White Eagle, and the Cock
will pursue the Black Eagle into the
country of the Auti-christ to help the
White Eagle. - ss-t -''
"The battles fought up to then will
be as nothing compared to those which
will take place in the country of Lu-
ther, for the seven Angels will together
pour in the fire of their eensors ON the
impious Earth, which signifies that the
Lamb will order the determination of
the race of the Anti-christ.
"When the Beast sees that he is lost,
he will become furious, and for many
months the beak of the White Eagle,
the claws of the Leopard, and the spurs
of the Cock will furiously strike at
him.
o'They will cross rivers over the
n0dleS or the sam, anu tnese, III pldces,
will change the course of the waters.
They will bury only the men Of noble
families the leading commandants, and
the princes, because to the carnage
made by the armies will be joined the
wholesale death of those who will die
of hunger or the pest.
"The Anti-ehrist viii ask many
times. for peace, but the seven Angels
who will walk in front of the animals
defending the Lamb have declared that
victory will only be granted on the
condition that the Anti-christ be
crushed like straw on the barn floor.
"The executors of the justice of
the Lamb cannot stop fighting'as long
as the Anti-ehrist possesses soldiers to
fight against them.
"'That which makes the decrees of
the Lamb so implacable is that the
Anti-ehrist has pretended to be a fol-
lower of Christ, and to act in His
Name and if he does not perish, the
fruit of the Redeemer would be lost,