Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1917 — Kaiser's Downfall Forecast In Rare Allegory of Monk. [ARTICLE]

Kaiser's Downfall Forecast In Rare Allegory of Monk.

Tiffin, 0., June 12.—A well-known manufacturer in this city has just received from a friend jn Cleveland a translation of a remarkable allegory from a book entitled “Omens of the Great War,” which was written in 1650, at the close of the Thirty Years’ War. The author was a German monk, known as Brother Johannes, and the book is very rare. As translated, it reads as follows: “Toward the year 2000 the Antichrist will manifest himself. His army will surpass in numbers all that can be imagined. There will be Christians among the legions and there will be Mohammedans and savage soldiers amoiig the defenders of the Lamb. “For the first time the Lamb will be all red. There will not be a single spot on the Christian world that will not he red, and the red will be in the ' heavens, earth, the waters and even in tne air, for blood will flow in the domains of the four elements at- once.

“The Black Eagle will throw himself on the Cock, who will lose many feathers, but will strike back heroically with his spurs. He would sobn be lost were it not for the help of the Leopard and his claws. “The Black Eagle will come from the country of Luther, will surprise the Cock from another side, and will invade the country of the Cock up to the middle of it. ‘ The White Eagle coming from the north will surprise the Black Eagle, and the Other Eagle will invade the country of the Cock up to the middle of it. “The Biack Eagle will see himself forced to liberate the Cock in order to fight the White Eagle and the Cock will pursue the Black Eagle into the country of the Antichrist to help the White Eagle. “The battles fought up to then will be. as nothing compared to those which will take place in the country of Luther for the seven angels will

together pour in the fire cf their censers on the impious earth, which signifies that the Lamb will order the extermination of the race of the Antichrist. “When the Beast sees that he is lost he will become furious and for many months the beak of the White Eagle, the claws of the Leopard ana the spurs of the Cock will fiercely strike at him. They will cross rivers over the bodies of the slain, and these in places will change the course of the waters. “They will bury only the men of noble families, the leading commandants and Princes, because to the carnage made by the armies will be joined by the wholesale death, those who will die of hunger or the pest. “The Antichrist will ask many times for peace, but the seven angels who walk in front of the three animals defending the Lamb have declared that victory will only be granted on condition that the Antichrist be crushed like a straw on the barn floor.

“The fight which will take place where the Antichrist forges his arms will not in any way be a human fight. (Essen, the location of the Krupp gun works.) “The three animals defending the Lamb will exterminate the last army of the Antichrist, but they will be forced to erect on the battlefield a pyre as large as a city, for the bodies of the dead will change the aspect of the countryside as there will be mounds of the slain. “The Antichrist will lose his crown and die in solitude and madness. His empire will be divided into 22 states, but none of them will any longer possess fortresses, armies or vessels. (Curiously there Germany now, whereas when this prediction was written the empire was divided into 25 principalities.) “The White Eagle, by the order of St. Michael, will drive the Crescent from Europe and will install himself in Constantinople. Then will begin an era of peace and prosperity fbr the earth and there will be no more wars. Each nation will be governed by its desires and will live according to the rules of justice. There will be no longer Lutherans and Schismatics. “The Lamb will reign and the supreme happiness of humanity will begin. Happy will be those escaping the perils of that period. They will be able to enjoy the fruit of the reign of the Spirit and the purging of humanity, which can only come after the defeat of the Antichrist.”