WEIRD PROPHECIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 2998, 22 September 1908, Page 3

WEIRD PROPHECIES.

An eccentric gentleman, named, " \ JLee Spangler, who is known aa the "Pennsylvania Cassandra," and who is a prophet after the type of the , .famous Baxter, but who does not expecttobe able to muster 144,000 comrades lor a flight to Heaven, ia / , coming to New York to warn the city ■of its approaching doom, says a New York paper. He has harangued crowds 1 in Philadelphia, where he was .listened to with good humoured toleration. He wears two placards on his 7 hat, reading, "King of Kings" a-d "Lord of Lords." According to this 'prophet, .New YorK 'is to be destroyed on December Ist, the rest of the world following suit on the last day of the year. He ia convinced that there are some righteous persons ■ even in New York, and that is why ;t tie is visiting the metropolis, .where ihe will try to persuade the f&ithful to take flight with him, in order to " -escape the earthquake somehow, and to be* caught up in the clouds. On the eve of his advent at New York he announced: "New York is worse than the Cities of the Plain. How London and Paris have been spared so long is ■ ;a profound mystery to me. lam in Marconi communication with the 'lhroue of Heaven, and bo am forewarned all right! A few fellow-saints qre coming with me, and wa will parade the streets of New York blowing . f oar-horns. " ■'■~~~~lft remains to be seen what will * 'happen to the chosen few when J' '.they 7 try conclusions with General I (Bingham's new noiseless by-law.