ARMAGEDDON.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1921, Page 1

ARMAGEDDON .

BF..MABKAIiI.K STUBY OK A BIND.! WKLLINOTON, Nov. 14 When speaking at f’etone on Sunday afternoon at the laying ol the inundation stone of the Soldiers’ .Memorial. Mr T. AI. Wilford, AI.IL. referred to the remaiks recently made in the j House of Commons by Mr Marks, when i speaking of the return of the Jews to Palestine. Air .Marks is reported to have stated that, according to Holy Writ, the final war would be louglit on the famous battlefield oi Armageddon in 1!)3I. and in regard to that war Air Willord told the following story ; There is, he said, a soldier in New Zealand--” general—who iought ill Palestine during the great war. M hen there a number of native chiefs came to him and asked him to accept the presentation ol a ring. Ibe soldiei twice refused lhe present, hut finally accepted it. The ring is a peculiar one, as to shape and curiously-cut stones. On going to London the general took the Hug to an expert, who. up,in examining it. -tateil that lie calculated it to In- 3000 year- old. The s,J,lie, presented the ring to Tiis wile, mill it wa> brought New Zealand. Decent lv the lady was visiting Auckland. and bad .In- ring with In r. She L n , -uprr: litmus, but. bearing ol a clairViivaiit in tliat city ’••!'" I' !, d made sumcv.ba; remarkable prognostications. ilie lady l-'k Hie ring to Him. That individual knew nothing about - Dug previously . and could nut have j j;, On taking the trinket in bis j l"Oid be said lliut it bad been picked j up near the li-kl of Armageddon wlmre no battle bad been louglit sim-e | the time of Alexander the Hrcai : was thousands of years old. and t hat ,h" Dual war would he fought the held ~|' Armageddon in I!'3H. lour years bei.ub the date mentiomid by Mr Marks in (he British House of (Yimmons. On joining her husband again eonlinn, I Mr Wilford, the lady told bin, What the clairvoyant had said, and lie replied that the ring lii"! I*™ ' the Meld of Armageddon, and during the war. although «B- .|. teen fotlg'd all iml.L ’tlier" bad be-n none on the plain Ksdraelon itselt.