The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Galesbure Man Has Taken
the Book and Listed a
Number of Quotations
That Seen, to Hit the Nail
on the Head

There have been all sorts Of proph.
ecies and Biblical quotations dug up
to apply to the kaiser and the Ger
mans and the world war. Even the
arithmettcian has been on the job
and has given a lot of figures to back
up his assertions as to when war
will cease. 1t has remained for a
contributor to the Galesburg Regis
ter, however, to combine all OF the
Biblical references ard to correlate
them to the events in this great war.
Here is what It. l.. J. writing to the
Republican Register says:
I noticed cartoon in the Republi-
can Register of the kaiser with the
inscription, Onward With God
don't think the kaiser is right for in
the first chapter of Revelations we
find one verse, "And stood upon
the sands Of the sea and saw beast
rise up out Of the sea having seven
heads and ten horns and upon his
horns ten crowns, and upon his head
the name of blasphemy" (notice the
cartoon). Reference to any encyclo-
pedia will show that the German en-
pire is composed OF twenty-six states
and division, hunt the names for
yourselves. Encyclopedia Britannica
ty-six states Germany's colonial pos.
sessions and we find an empire COM
posed of twenty-seven parts. The
beast, too had twenty-seven parts,
seven heads. ten horns and ten
crowns. Verse two describes the
beast giving him the brutality of the
bear, the bloodthirstiness Of the lion
and the deceit and treachery of the
leopard, all of which characteristics
shall have been shown by the world 8
enemies in this present war. Verse
three reads, And l saw one of his
heads as it were wounded to death
and his deadly wound was healed.
1t is we'll known chat the kaiser has
been operated ON for cancer of the
throat; which is usually a dead"
disease but he has recovered. Verse
five reads and there was given him
a mouth speaking great things and
blasphemies and power was given
unto him to continue forty and two
months" Great things and bias
could there be of the kaiser's
speeches, when he tells his troops
that they are chosen of God and that
he is Gods vice regent, and then
sends his soldiers to rob and rape.
pillage and burn an innocent neutral
country like Belgium and his diplo-
mats to lie and deceive.
Verses 6, Z, s, 8. and 10 are de-
scriptive of Germany's early sue
cesses In the war and the fate which
awaits her.
Verses 11-12, And I beheld anoth-
er beast coming out Of the earth; and
he had two horns like lamb and he
spake as dragon and he exerciseth
all the power OF the first beast be-
fore him and cause the earth and
them which dwell therein to worship
the first beast whose deadly wound
was healed
Austria-FIungary. the ally of Ger
many, Is an empire composed Of two
kingdoms, often known as the dual
monarchy as st. John puts it having
two horns as a lamb" Her part in the
war has been that OF the understudy
of Germany, the willing tool OF the
kaiser Her troops have been at his
disposal: she began the war when ne
was ready in accordance with his
wish (see Gerard's letters). In 9th.
ed words, she causeth the earth and
them that dwell therein to worship
the first beast. Also Austria-Hun-
gary is almost a land-locked empire
as st. JOnn says, one COlneIu up
out of the earth" and Of the sea, as
did the first beast. Verse 13: And
he doeth great wonders so that he
maketh fire come down from heaven
on the earth in the sight of men
The German troops were the first
and ! think the only ones to use
liquid fire in battle to the consterna-
ton of their opponents.
Verse 1917. And he caused al!
both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond. to receive a mark in
their right hand or in the forehead
and that no man might buy or sell
save that had the mark or the name
Of the beast or the number of his
name"
In Germany for the past two years
the necessities of life have been so
scarce but SO well distributed that
they have devised a card system
whereby every person, rich or poor.
small or great, has card issued to