The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-12-18
A Prophecy-When and How Will The
War End?
(Fron1 Manufacturers Record, Aug
8. 1850

(From Manufacturers Record, Aug.
8, 1860
shortly after the war began ths
Manufacturers Record editorially pre-
dicted that it would last at least three
! to four years, and gave the reasons
therefor. We have never seen any
justification for changing that view.
Without pretending to any slft OF
prophecy, the Manufacturers Record
would offer the following speculative
suggestions:
..The European war will last two
years longer.
Germany and Austria will not only
have to pay, as far as money can re-
pay, all that the war has cost Bel
GUM and France, but Germany will
lose Alsace and Lorraine and possibly
some additional territory. Moreover,
they will have to pay an indemnity OF
not less than ten billion dollars.
stConstantinople will fall to Russia,
and Turkey will be dismembered and
the Turkish power driven out of Eu-
rope.
.sThe Hohenzollern and 'Hapsburg
dynasties will be blotted out, and the
men of these families who at the close
of the war are living will probably be
imprisoned for life, and perhaps
some of them may be executed.
MANY of the officials responsible
| for murder in the killing of the Eng
| lish nurse and others will have to pay
| the penalty with their lives. 1t will
then be too late to appeal for mercy.
They showed no mercy, and we
doubt if any mercy will be shown to
them. The leaders who took the sword
in the campaign to conquer Europe
will themselves perish by the sword.
.In the end Germany will become
! a republic and the good people OF
| that country will rebuild its prosperity
and it's humanity and seek to atone
for the horrors which have zen
brought upon the world by Kaiser
ism and Prussian militarism, and
then friendship Of European people
will take the place Of present hatred.
''These are suggested merely as
speculative predictions. Two years
hence we may be able to see how
nearly we forecasted the future"
| Cantelou Brothers, Montgomery,
| Ala. send us the foregoing clipping
from the editorial columns of the
| Manufacturers Record of August 3,
1915, and express their deep interest
! in the fulfnment Of the prophecy
made more than two years ago.
The prediction made August 3, 1916,
that the war would last two years,
followed a prediction made in the
latter part of 1914, in which we took
the ground that the war would last
at least three to four years, and in
which we gave our reasons for the be-
| lief.
What may be the indennities which
Germany will have 20 pay is not yet
known, but the war did last two
years longer" and Germany and Aus
tria will have to pay vast sum to
Belgium and France. Germany will
| lose Alsace and Lorraine. The Hohen-
zollern and Hapsburg dynasties will
be blotted out, and we believe and
trust that the men Of these families
will, as predicted, be imprisoned for
| life or executed.
At the time that editorial was writ
ten we believed that there were, some
| good people in Germany and that
they would come to the front and Or
ganize a republic and seek to atone
for the. horrors which have been
wrought upon the world by Kaiser
ism, but we have, as yet, seen no in
dication whatever as to the fulfill
ment of the thought we then had that
some good people" might still be in
Germany. We have seen no evidence
of any desire to atone for the hor-
rors committed. It is barely possible
that there are some few Germans liv-
ing who have sonae goodness in
them, but as to that part of our edi-
torial prediction of August 5, 1915,
we are yet little uncertain.
It would seem just now that there
is no evidence in Germany that the
proportion of good people is equal
to the proportion found in Sodonl,
and that proportion was not sufficient
to keep the Almighty from utterly
destroying Sodom and Gomorrah.
Shall we undertake to say that God
was wrong when he destroyed those
cities of wickedness?
Shall we undertake to prove that
Almighty God knew not what He was
doing; knew not the punishment
which should be inflicted upon sin
ners?
Unless we are ready to take that
position then we have no right to say
that God shall not use America and
the allies, for He uses human agen-
cies for His work-for the full pun
ishment Of Germany.