The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-07-23
A Remarkable Prophecy.
From the Manifold (Pa.l Advertiser.

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at first doubted its authenticity, because of
few discrepancies in the text, but the mat
ter was referred to the newspaper informa-
ton bureau at Washington, and Director
Frederick j. Haskin replied as follows:
GIN reply to your letter asking whether
the prophecy by the Monk Fratre Johannes
is real we would say that this prophecy was
discovered on an old parchment in the Con-
vent of the Holy Ghost, at Wismar, in Ger
many, and is kept under glass in the town
hall of that city. There have been numer-
Gus translatiOns whose text varies some
what"
The discrepancies which we noted, and
which the reader may notice, are probably
due to variations in the translation of the
text On the whole it is a remarkable pro-
phecy. 1t is as follows:
"The real Antichrist will be one of the
monarchs of his time, Lutheran Protestant.
He will invoke God and give himself as His
messenger, or apostle.
"This prince of lies will swear by the
Bible He will represent himself as the arm
of the Most High, sent to chastise currupt
peoples.
"He will have only one arm, but his in
Vulnerable armies, who will take for their
device the words, God is with U.S. will re-
semble the Internal regions
'For time he will act by craft and
strategy His spies 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. 1t will not be in
the first instance a war which he will wage
against French monarch; but it will be one
of such a nature that, after two weeks
all will realize its universal character.
"Not only all Christians, but all Mussul-
mans, and even more distant peoples will be
involved. Armies will be involved from the
four quarters of the earth
For 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 various
tokens-in special he will massacre the
priests, the monks, the women, the children
and the aged. He will show no mercy, but
will pass, torch in hand, like the barbarians,
but invoking Christ.
ellis words of mposture will resemble
those of Christians but his vows those Of all
the human race.
"He will have an eagle in his arms. There
will also be an eagle in the arms of his con-
federate. But the latter will be a Christian,
and will die from the maledictions of Pope
Benendct, who will be elected at the begin
ming of the reign of Antichrist.
"In order to conquer Antichrist it will be
necessary to kill more men than Rome has
ever contained. 1t will need the energies
of all the kingdoms, because the cock, the
leopard and the white eagle will not be able
to make an end of the black eagle without
the aid of the prayers and vows of all the
human race.
''Never will humanity have been faced
with such a peril, because the triumph of
the Antichrist would be that of the demon,
who will have taken possession Of his per-
sonality.
''For it has been said that twenty CEN
turtles after the incarnation of the Word
the beast will incarnate in his turn, and will
menace the world with as many evils as the
Divine Incarnation has brought it graces
Toward the year 1000 Antichrist will be
made manifest His army will surpass in
number anything that can be imagined.
There will be Christians among the cohorts,
and there will be Mohammedans among the
defenders of the Lamb, as well as some
heather soldiers.
"For the first time the Lamb will be red
for blood will flow in the domains of the four
elements at once
"The black eagle will come against the
cock which will lose many feathers. It will
soon be exhausted, but for the leopard and
its claws.
"The blacl, eagle. who will come from the
land of Luther, will make 3 surprise attack
-.~.~ he cock.
The white eagle will come from the
north.
"Tbo bloc1 eagle will find itself forced to
lot go tha cock in order to fight the white
eagle, W Eor--0on The cock will have to pur-
sue the black eagle into the land of the An
tichrist to aid the white eagle.
"The battles 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
three animals of the Lamb will have pro-
claimed that victory will not be given ex-
cept on the condition that Antichrist shall
be crushed like a straw on the threshng
floor
"The three animals will not be permitted
to cease fighting as long as Antichrist has
soldiers
at will be made manifest that the combat,
which will be fought out in that part of the
country in which Antichrist FORCES his arms
is no human conflict. The animal defenders
Of the Lamb will exterminate the last army
of Antichrist.
"Antichrist will lose his crown and die in
solitude and madness. His empire will be
divided into twenty-five states, but none
will have any longer any Notifications, army
or ships of war.