Show PROPHECY FORE UNO AND AFT the gift of prophecy has touched all of us at one time or another and never to a more varied utterance than apropos of the present war countless private and public statements have been made as to its duration and outcome men in the factory and pulpit men honest and dishonest pessimists and optimists have alike indulged in seera seers hip bop E especially ally during the first year of the conflict were the per dictions c t 1 on 3 rife and reckless but who la in his most moat farseeing farsee mg moment glimpsed the rus sian revolution the submarine pira cy the participation of the united states and other extraordinary phases now everyday facts of the majority of the prophets prophet visions have made them less precipitate in their declarations ft what hat has interested us ua particular ly in the prophetic order however have been the exhumed records of the past rather than the guesses of the present according to these annals there have been astounding forewarnings nes and predictions of the european cataclysm and in the light of events it is 13 even more astounding toun ding that they were either ignored or ridiculed but that is always the reward of prophecy apparently a library of books was written on the inevitable I 1 Is oc occur our ence of war in the principal tongues of europe in an essay assay written nearly forty years ago georg brandes brandas the eminent danish author foretold the result of teutonic militarism harold frederic one of our most promising n novelists ove lists who died before fulfilling expectations expectation wr wrote e a sketch of kaiser will william jam 11 II just jus before he ascended the throne in which remarkable to relate freder ic said it seems very probable that some future tame taine a century hence perhaps will write to show that william 11 II of prussia and the german empire was a mysteriously belated survival of the goohs goths and vandals vandal an attila born a thousand th ears after his time and a few years yeara prior to his death tolstoy made an uncanny orph prophecy eav concerning the future of the world in it giving the approximate date of the outbreak ot of the preat great war and announcing that a mao flom the north would bring peace to europe which he would t thereafter hereafter rule for twenty five ye yeara ars we wonder if that man is now in evidence C considerably d blis cur car lousito and interest have also alo center ed about one of the cryptic ees cies in the book of revelation chapter XIII verse 5 in which the pre sent kaiser la is identified with the beast to whom power was given to continue forty and two months month emch would end the war in february a ry mother shipton too has had h her er inning on the subject for we have seen her cited as a follows follow when he pictures look alive W with th movements revar molde fre freer f when ships like fishes swim be vath eath the sea when men outstripping b birds can score the sky then half the world de deep up drench ed ad in blood shall die |