Very like a Whale
♦ Somebody lias unearthed an old prophecy for the year 1886 of a decidedly uncomfortable nature. It appears that in the Church of Oberemmel, near the city of Treveri, in Germany, there is a stone tablet some centuries old, on which is cut the prophetic verse— in prose it may be rendered, "When Mark may bring us Easter, and Anthony shall sing praises at Pentecost, and John shall swing the censer at the feast of Corpus Domini, then shall the whole earth resound with weepings and waitings." Now it so happens that next year Easter falls on St. Mark's Day, Pentecost on tnat of St. Anthony of Padua, and the Corpus' Domini comes on St. -John the Baptist's Day, June 24. Here, then, are the first three conditions of the prophecy fulfilled, so that. now believers in prophecies, and anxious - minded persons generally, have only to sit down and think of everything disagreeable that can possibly happen to this poor planet and the dwellers thereon between January and December, 1886. And really, if the cyclones, and earthquakes, and " wars and rumors of wars " Of the years 1882-3-4-5 are to be eclipsed, the prospect is not an agreeable one.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 46, 26 September 1885, Page 3
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201Very like a Whale Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 46, 26 September 1885, Page 3
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