| Show THE ylie YEAR yean OF IVOND ens ers ANCIENT predictions concerning THE EVENTS OF 1872 editor new mew york world sin bin when two months mouths ago dir nii vil lemes le sant saut editor of the paris figaro called on the comte de chambord at the schweitzer hof lucerno lucerne with the view of inducing that personage to make a fusion with the Orle anista he was answered by a magnificent wave of the hand land and a royally emphatic denial mine is the white flag forever aud the lilies will bloom immortal on my es cutcheon proudly exclaimed the last of the bourbons really M bant pant ought to have known better than to expose himself to such a rebuff for once onea the parisian barber was not so BO shrewd us as his namesake of seville he must have forgotten that henri comte coat e de chambord Oh ambord is the man of destin destiny dea tiny Y that to nim lim all the prophecies of the last years yearb point as the great king and that he cannot compromise him hin cause caubo by allying it in any way with the revolution it must have escaped him more especially that this year is the tho holy year of ful fui fulti diment ment and that at length after forty years of betry waiting the grandson grand son of charler charlee X is to be rewarded for bib bis fidelity to principle by entering on the enjoyment othis of his crown yes the year 1872 is ia to be the glorious year of the modern world it is destined to open a new now era or rather to be the beginning of the end or of times to be convinced of this we have only to sum pum up the incredible marvels of which it is to be tho the witness 1 I A frightful civil war will be waged betwee ff rf the three great parties of france republicans and this war will certainly take place within the year 1872 11 II paris wilt wili be destroy after aate r terri ble struggles wherein blood will flow ili in streams III lii the count de tle chambord will be declared king of france under the title ofF of Henry lenry V IV there will be civil war in england italy antl anti other states of europe V the civil war in europe will be quelled by henry V VI the popo will be restored to hib his dominions by henry V vir VII alsace and lorraine Lor raine will wili be restored to france VILL VIII the french under the command of henry V will march through europe as conquerors and even penetrate into a portion of asia IX ireland and poland will be freed E england and germany gormany will return to orthodoxy and islamism will be destroyed X A great battle called the battle of the birch tree will be fought in which henry V will annihilate the armies of russia and prussia sla sia it is not ascertained at what precise date some of the latter events will take place but it cannot be very long after the accession of henry V because that prince is now fifty two years or of ageland although the prophets give him multitudinous inous victory they do not dot sem s em to have accorded him unusual longevity we shall shail examine now a little in detail the grinds on which all these wonderful events eventa are aro thus thua clearly and boldly foretold for this purpose it is not necessary to enter into dry archeso logical researches THE GREAT nung nang AND THE GREAT PONTIFF clear about the ad advent vent of a great king and a gret great pope popo at the end of the tho ages are constantly met with in early medieval eval literature and fragmentary traditions of the bame same aro are to be found among alt european nations and stranger still among all the peo ples piea of the far et eilt about this fact there is no doubt among scholars the trouble troubie let iet among commentators has been to determine who the t great king is and whon he is to lo make bis his ap perance appearance now however the point seems to be happily decided to the satisfaction of all patriotic frenchmen he is to be a gaul or frank aud sud behold the proofs TO so far backas back aa the sixth century st Remig remigius remi Bemi gius glus lus ius said to clovis learn my eon that the kingdom of france is predestined of god to defend the roman church which is the sole pole true church of christ that kingdom will one day be great arning the kingdoms of the earthwell earth will embrace all the limits of the roman empire it will f all other kings to its sway it will last to the end of time if the venerable bede bedo in the seventh century commencing this pro pheby chesy sought bought to corroborate it by the ancient sybilline oracles raban maurus abbot of fulda wrote iu in our doctors say that one oue of the kings of france will reign over the whole of the roman boman empire this thia will be at the end of time and he be will be the greatest and the last of all hinge kinga 11 he then tilen adds that after a glorio gloriosa glo gio niona riona u s reign the great king will go to jerusalem and lay jay down his crown and sceptre on mount olivet this thia will be the end and consummation of the holy roman boman and christian empire the monk adson repeated this tradition in the tenth century and it gradually became so popularly known that ta taso 80 celebrated it in his nis 1 octave ll 11 Cm Cao sarious whose prophecy is found entire in the I 1 liber pr ut nt ed in 1524 wrote these remarkable words affer after A fer the entire universe and particularly france and in france the provinces of the north end dd east especially ally lorraine and champagne shall have fallen a prey to gigantic mir mis orles erles and the greater greatest tribulations these theeo provinces will be succored by a pince pineo p inea ince banished in his youth who will wili recover the crown of listes this prince will extend his dominion everywhere and will rule the whole earth Atthe at the bame hame time there thero will tie a great pontiff very vury very ho y and very perfect he will have with him that great king belonging to the remains of the most saintly blood of the kings of franca this great groat king will help the great paio joi goi 0 o to reform the world 11 jerome botin botlo wrote in 1410 after a little more than four centuries snail shall have havo elapsed the earth will be ba desola ed and the church reduced to mourning the shep shop shepherd bord berd will be struck and the flock di dispersed dispensed 91 eased but the dew of df heaven wiit wili fall and the altars ot of beelzebub will be overturned and the workers of iniquity will be scattered and perish There witt wiil be a child of the blood of the kings produced by the aco lre ire pre yle of artois henry V la is grau graydeon grandson deon of ccarles X count of Ar artois tois toiv and be will govern france with prudence and honor THE PROPHECY OF THE LILIES this thib ancient prophecy is preserved by dbvid david careus io in his commentary on the apocalypse printed at heidelberg 1618 the following Is ia the most lug passage pas paa baget sager toward tohaid the end of time there will appear a great monarch of the nation of the most moat illustrious lilt illy ho he will have a large forehead high brows browa great eyes and a beaked nose he will gather a powerful army and crush all the tho enemies of his hib kingdom he will subdue the turks and the barbarians ba rians and none will be able to resist him for the arm of the lord will be ever with him and he cewill will rule the whole earth his reign will be called the paradise of good christians through jacob boehme and othera others it seems evident that the same prophecy was current in germany where the tho era of lilies or tt is well knoz known h EASTERN prophecies I 1 i all the peoples of the esst east with without out exception armenians Armen ians arabs turks syrians indians cochan Chinese have traditions dating from the most remote dimps perfectly analogous to those of the west the turk lah lan traditions are naturally the most moat curious eurious of tue thebe these e inasmuch as their in variable burden is ia thib the destruction of the ottoman empire by the christian or franks and the pranks franks are to be led by a great agrest king hing 0 who wib submit the whole orient to the religion ot the christ these oriental traditions have always been so popularly credited that the tho arabs araba and turns turah of Jeru jerusalem saiera Balera walled up the gate by which the prophecy indicated the great king of the franks is to enter when he comes to subjugate the east an english chronicler of the twelfth century relates that the golden gate gaiel of stamboul Stam bout bore boro this thib inscription when cometh the blonde king of the west I 1 will open myself the greeks had walled it alid and the did not liot pass through it in 1204 but set up an eques ques trian statue obe ohe future grest great king with all ail the minute facial features described in the prophecies THE GREAT BAT nat nattle BATTLE OF THE WORLD strange to say it Is ia in the german prophecies that we find the tho details of the first victory which the great king of the french is ia to win over germans germane these prophecies were collected and published publia bed hed at colo no ne by the monks of the points in which they bli nil 11 agree among themselves are A general war in europe preceded by political convulsions and particular the heterodox east aud and north fighting against the orthodox west and south the definitive victory of the latter under the gresia great kins king who rises all at once and triumphs in a great battle delivered in autumn at the birch tree crossroads between and cologne in ili westphalia that is on the banks of the rhine here german prophecies repeat that the color of the conquering klug king and aud of will wiil be white they add however that he will be lame of the right leg and will mount his horse bythe bytho by the tho left foot unfortunately we believe the comte de da chambord has not yet seen fit to fulfill this condition IS IT THE ICING KING OF some presumptuous german has thrown out the suspicion that it is perhaps wilhelm Wil wll helm heim king of prussia who is pointed out by the seers as the hero 0 of it buch such triumphs has he not been saluted in the bavarian walhalla as wilhelm der but let theair the germans beware and tremble for so eo far from enjoying such honor prussia has risen high only to fall to the lowest depths dt the versifier versified versi verbi faed fied predictions of friar hermann on the destinies of prussia bave have even the oracular merit of a double they aro are plain blunt ferocious they announce the greatest misfortunes for king william who will wiit be the layt last of his race rave and for the kingdom of prussia which will melt away like enow before the sun eun contemporaneously with the great king liberator the same prophecies declare that there will be a great pontiff who will wili wi 11 ll r his fiock flock that the wolf will coabe ceabe ceat ceab e to lay snares before the lords fold that the aneli ancient ent abbeys will rise irom from their ruins and that th clergy will be reestablished established re in 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