Show VARIOUS prophecies the time in which we live Is ie notorious for its tendency godeny everything that cannot be explained on so ao called natural principles men ken nowadays now a days seem to su suppose p pose that they know every law of nature 1 1 and when a phenomenon appears purely spiritual or physical a phenomenon for which they can find no place within the boundaries 0 of pa physic cil nature as far as this happens happe to be e known the immediate recourse is to simply deny As BOOK as a phenomenon cannot be explained and accounted for in a hu hurry rry it has in this supernatural ishille age no DO right to exist it must be denied and those who do not fiel feel disposed to deny the testimony of their own senses are I 1 cranks or idiots that which cannot be accounted for is miraculous and the miraculous is impossible the world has chosen the position of voltaire who once said if a miracle were indisputably performed before my eyes and in the presence of people who all saw it I 1 would sooner say that I 1 was in myself y belf blind and all the ten thousand thou fiand were fools than I 1 would believe in the miracle this fc exactly it men deliberately choose to deny and when this standpoint midpoint is once taken no argument can avail all the light of the sun cannot penetrate the dungeon of deliberate infidelity in harmony with this tendency edthe of the age is the denial of the prophetic ro gift that god in this this ge should have endowed men W the gift of prophecy is of course impossible and here it should be observed infidels and christians 1 unite in denial 1 1 who belleve believe christians say they thattie that the gift of prophecy formerly existed also assert that they do not it exists now it is colonger no DO longer needed 11 1 although no DO one knows aby here we stand face to face ich th e awful fact that a fostof hoat of ed infidels have peaceably foteen hands with a host of pro lemiel dewed christians and both blend their voices together in denial what IL a spectacle is this alliance between cc christianity and infidelity ado I 1 how does it look when viewed from the lofty regions of nam where christ and his saints against tot all this infidelity we can to numerous facts which are aff ident for any honest mind theae facts belong to history aud and oft neither demer be ignored nor denied the tb human mind or soul or t for the name is inessential 6 constituted that a person can ander certain circumstances per eave things independent of space e kam let the following exam pleam speak peak for themselves when count wingendorf Zin gendorf in 1843 let arned from america a violent form met the ship on the of r and threatened to destroy athe ie count calmly kaid aid we come on shore safe and As s the storm raged more he said to the cap lat it will abate in two the captain did not believe bellev this ethis but the prediction came to pass nevertheless and on further inquiry the count assured the captain that the lord had revealed to him beforehand how long ion the storm would last seelbach Finger zeige der gottlicher gott gottli lichen cheu P 1 I socrates in says from my early childhood something wonderful accompanies me it is a voice which always when audible warns me from doing that which I 1 purpose to do but which never tells me what to do this voice was so reliable that Ti marchus knew he must die because he had neglected the aarni warning ng thereby given A few days ays before the execution of socrates arito came to him and told him that the sentence should be carried out next day to which the great philosopher replied if that is the will of god be it so but I 1 do not believe that it will take place tomorrow I 1 have just had a very pleasant dream I 1 thought I 1 saw a lady of uncommon beauty clothed in a long white robe she called me by name and told me that I 1 should be in my beautiful pythia or home in three days ap this really happened on the third day the great man emptied the cup of poison that ended his earthly life Jose josephus phils prophesied while nero yet reigned that Ves vespasian should soon become an emperor a prophecy which saved his life and which was fulfilled joseph de bello jud ill 8 jeanne darc foretold the wound which she received in the battle of Or orleans ieans and also that the english should be driven out of france savonarola of florenz t 1488 1498 foretold the invasion of charles VIII in italy in a time of deep peace when preaching against the sins of the rulers and of the people he often alluded to a great king who should come over the mountains and punish with his sword the tyrants of italy this happened in 1494 when charles with his miff mighty ty army came over the alps and conquered italy savonarola was once told that lorenzo of medici would expel him from the countr country mans to which the great man of god answered 1 I do not care your whole land is only as a pea compared to the earth but this lorenzo should know that although he is a citizen and the first in the state and I 1 nothing but a stranger and a poor monk yet I 1 shall remain and he be shall have to leave lorenzo died a short time after john knox the great reformer of Scotland has left several prophecies on the of january 1570 count murray had been murdered murder cd the day following knox preached a sermon in the pulpit he found a piece of paper and thereon was written a suggestion that he should speak on the death of a man whom he had considered to be a second god knox put the paper in his pocket after the sermon he expressed his deep regret at the great loss which the Scottish had sustained through the death of this honored mun man and concluded by saying in one is present here to whom this foul murder which causes all good men to mourn is a source of joy and mockery but I 1 tell him that he shall not escape without punishment he shall die in a strange land far away from here without a friend to sympathize with him or to support ids his head the author of the mockery was thomas maitland who confessed to it before his sister lady tra brown he added that knox must have been crazy when he pronounced a death sentence upon a man whom he did not know but the words of knox are literally fulfilled maitland was ex expelled led from the country and died in italy on his way to rome without having a soul near him in his last moments hildegard of bingen 1178 was a wonderfully endowed lady she has written several passages which must be admitted to be inspired by a higher spirit than that possessed by mankind in general in the she distinguishes five different periods 1 to the destruction of antichrist anti christ ts and it should go on until the bishops and the clergy should be driven away from their worldly possessions when justice shall have lifted her voice to the highest judge everybody shall cry out against the pervert ers of justice and they shau shad allow the fierceness of the enemy to rage over them they shall say how long shall we suffer these rapacious wolves who should be physic physicians law but are ilot thus she goes on describing the apostasy apo stacy anti and the judgments of the last days aud and gives among other prophecies the following which seems to be fulfilled in the appearance of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints then shall also the true angels approach u unto into men for brave and wise men shall be raised up and all both old and new expressions of the bible and aalthe words which have been e dk dispersed persed by the lloy holy spirit shall be gathered and their meaning shall be laid out as an ornament with precious preciou jewels ewels sil and all the believers sh shall look therein as in a looking glass then shall also the jews and the heretics rejoice and say that their honor is near by many gentiles shall be baptized and confers and honor christ in the meantime unrighteousness shall raise its head but soon then be done away with also wars famines and pests shall rage and again vanish f H arnim blicke bakke auf fer eit und aee nwart mit mil Bezie Bes siehung hung auf dw che sei hungen der h bremen 1849 here we have a prophecy delivered in the twelfth century which describes minutely the work of joseph the prophet men shall be raised up to explain the passages of the bible and to gather together all the books that have been dispersed by the spirit pointing clearly to the book of mormon and the 4 book of abraham and that this should be followed by numerous conversions among gentiles at the same time as the jews should begin to gather home and so on prophecies to the number of hundreds could be produced from the pages of history they belong to all ages and all nations and they undoubtedly prove that the constitution of man is such that he under certain conditions can perceive reelie what is not actually present to his physical eye this face being proved roved beyond a doubt who can say t that hat the gift of prophecy is impossible let us now suppose that god for certain purposes operates through his spirit upon this let us say visionary faculty in man then we have a prophet of god such were moses elijah daniel john joseph smith F and all others who have for a longer or shorter period of their lives stood under divine influence and guidance to deny the possibility of the prophetic gift is to deny a large part art of the history of mankind arif and to deny the necessity of prophecy prophet Y in in i this age is to give ones self a certificate of aye spiritual blindness on these two negatives the religion of the world is to ft large extent built |