A Mournful Prophecy of Woes.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2060, 19 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

A Mournful Prophecy of Woes.

Pnor. Gnnnitß in a pamphlet published in 187') predioted seven years of disaster and famine, beginning with 18S0, and ending with 1887, during whioh the world will be a hell of strife and carnage. He said : " From 1880 to 1837 will bo one universal carnival of death, Asia will be depopulated, Europto neatly bo. America will lose fifteen million of her people. Besides a plague we are to have storms and tidal waves, mountains arc to toss thejr heads thro' the the choicest valleys, navigators wiil be lost by the thousands owing to the oapriciousdefl^xures of the magnetic needle, and islands will appear and disappear in the oeaan. All the beasts, birds and fishes will be diseased, famine and civil strife will destroy most of the human beings alive by piague, and finally " two years of fire " — 183 "> to 1887— will rage with fary in every part of the globe. In 1887 the " Star of Bethlehem " will " reappear in Cassiopia's Chair," the immediate results being universal war and portentous floods and shipwrecks. North America is to be again involved in civil war unless a "Napoleon" arises to quoll it, but during these terrible days the Pacific States will be n veritable paradise of peace, compared to the hellish strife that will be waged throughout the world. The people that may manage to survive till 1887 will have reason to be thankful."