A PREDICTION BY RENAN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9566, 12 August 1909, Page 4

A PREDICTION BY RENAN.

In a recent number of the "Harbinger of Light " published in Melbourne, the following extract appears :—-"Through a medium of repute in Italy, Signor Candioti, a lengthy communication has been received purporting to emanate from Ernest Kenan. It nrecludes with a prediction which is sufficiently interesting to justify me in translating it with"a view to its verification or otherwise, in the time to come. It is as follows:—-"Onward, my brothers. Be not ever dismayed. The aurora draws nearer, and daybreak is at hand. Priests and tyrants are terrified to behold the coming of the light, and that immense flight of bats and ravens prepare for flight to such dark caverns as will protect their eyes, so long accustomed to the gloom, from being blasced by the unaccustomed vlight. Already, my brothers, you may discern behind the rosy aurora a shining legend of your spiritual brethren and consolers, who will free you from the sorrows of life a...l guide your footsteps along the pathway of goodness which will conduce you to that happiness which you will enjoy with them. Gently and tenderly they will eradicate from your hearts those deep roots of hatred, eeotism, and bitterness engendered by injustice and crime, which are now £.the causes of so much human suffering" . . . My brothers, great cataclysms will shake the earth in the near future, and mourning and sorrow will be universal; for millions of | our fellow creatures, both good and evil, will be sacrificed on the altais of Mars, to glut the ambition of one man —the Emperor of Germany. Very shortly, ■ Germany, France, Italy, Austria, England and Russia wi'l become one vast conflagration. Nevertheless, have no fear that injustice will triumph. No. my dear brothers. Rejoice, for justice will prevail. Pacific rulers like Edward }he Seventh, Victor Emmanuel and the President of the Prenc'h Republic, will emerge victorious from the strife, and immediately afterwards there will be a universal disarmament, then will follow an era of socialistic government, the percursor of one more prefect. This is the day dawn I 'am permitted to Htmoiance you. It is not (possible to

fix the precise date, but I can assure you this chain of events will commence during the lifetime of the present generation. Again, I say. you will witness the Aurora, my brothers." • '-"'! :