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Exeter Advocate, 1914-12-24, Page 2HE WAR FORETOLD A Remarkable Prophecy by a Sixteenth Century Monk Writing in the Figaro (Paris), Mons, Pel•adaa.n saysthat when lits father, Adrian Pelaclan, 'who lead devoted himself to the study of pzo- riecies, ecstasies and visions, died cu- o in 1890 he found among the d anents a prophecy by Johannes,. a monk, dated 1600. He had obtain- ed it from a' canon of the Order of St. Michel de Frigolet, near Terms - con, who received it from .an abbot named Donal, a studious priest, who died at Belaucaire at a great age. In the Figaro, M. Peladan furnishes extracts from. the ' Pro- phecy, which runs as follows: The Prophecy. "1. 1t will have been thought that. he, the Antichrist, has frequently been identified, for all Mayers of the Lamb have a resemblance, and all evil -doers are found to be typi- cal of the Great Evil; "2. The veritable Antichrist will be one of the monarchs of his day, a Lutheran. He will invoke God, and claim to be His messenger. "3. This Prince of Liars will swear by the Scriptures. He will represent himself as the instru- ment of the Most High for chasten- ing the wicked. "4. He will pare but one arm ; but his innumerable troops, who will take for their motto, 'God with us,' will appear as the legions of Hell, "5. For a long time he will agitate by ruse and felony, his spies will overrun the world, and he will be maeiter of great secrets. "6. He will employ philosophers, who will prove that his mission is celestial, "7, A war will cause the mask to he lifted. Phis will not be that waged against France. but another distinguished Power, and in two weeks this war will become univer- saI. "8. This war will enlist all the peoples of Christendom, Mohamme- dans, and even those from afar. Armies will arise from the four cor- ners of the earth. "9. For the angels will enlighten the souls of men, and in the third Meek they will recognize that this is the Antichrist, -and that they will all be enslaved if they do not over- throw this despot. °10, The Antichrist will be re- cognized by many indications. He will go out of his way to massacre priests. monks, women, children anci the aged. He will show no mercy. He will go forth torch in hand. like the barbarians, but in- yoking the name of Christ! "11. His pretentious words will resemble those of the Christians, but his actions will he those of Nero and the Roman persecutors He will have an eagle in his coat of arms. and another will appear in that of his ally, the other bad mon- arch. "12 • But this one is a. Christian, and he wilt die by the malediction of the Pope Benedictus, who will be elected at the end of the reign of An tiohrist. "13, There will no more be seen any priests or monks to absolve the combatants, for, in the first plate, priests and monks will fight with other citizens, and, further, the Pope Benedictus will have cursed the Antichrist, and it will be pro- claimed that those who fight will find salvation, and dying, will be straightway' anslated •to- Heaven; like the •martyrs. "14. The Papal Bull which shall proclaim these things will resound afar, and will give fresh life to the brave and bring .death to the allied monarch of the Antichrist. "15. The defeat of the ;Antichrist will demand the death of more men than Roine has ever contained. It will, need the united efforts of all the Powers, for the Cock, the Leo- pard and the White Eagle will not make an end of the Black Eagle if the prayers ,and wishes of all hu- mane people do not aid them. "16. Humanity has never yet. known eueh great peril, for the tri- umph of the Antichrist would be that of t;he demon of whom. he is the incarnation, "17. For it has been• said that twenty centuries after the incarna- tion of the Word the Beast will, in his turn, incarnate and menace the world, with as much of evil as the Divine Incarnation brought. 'of grace. "18. Towards the year 2000 the Antichrist will manifest' himself., his army will exceed in numbers anything' that has been imagined,' There will be Christians among his followers, and there will be Moham- medans and ,savage troops among those of the'Danmb: "19. For !the first title, the Lamb will be ,all red. In ,a1d. Christendom there will he no ,little •space that is not red, arid the sky, earth, waater, and even the atmosphere will be red, for blood wilifloww,i.nto all four elements `at the same time. "20. The Black Eagle will hurl it- self at the Cock, wvahowill lose many feathers, but will use his.izplir hero- ically. Re would speedily be re- duced bat for . the ,aid rendered by the Leopard.'and his Claws. "21, The Black Eagle, . Who will come from the Lutheran oeunt.ry; will surprise the Coek from another border„ and will invade , half the Cock' a'territory. "%2.' The White Eagle, .Who wil,i' • ~zine from the northern side, will surprise the Black Eagle and the other Eagle, and invade the country of the Antichrist completely from one end to the other. a423, The Black Eagle will be forced to retreat from the Cock in order to fight the White Eagle, and the Cock should follow the Black Eagle into the territory of the Anti- christ to help the White "Eagle. "24. The battles which have ta- ken place up till now will be insig- nificant beside those which *ill take place in the Lutheran country, for the seven Angels will pour out the fires of their vials of wrath on the impious land, which signifies that the Lamb will ordain the ea:termi- nation of the rate of Antichrist. "25,. When the Beast finds that she has hast she will become furious, and for ,some months the beak of the White Eagle, the talo=ns of the Leo- pard, and the Spur of the Cock will have to rend her. "26. Rivers will be forded by means of the dead bodies, which will divert the -eourse of the waters. Only the way distinguished will be interred ----the gen,ea�als and the princes -for the carnage of the war will be heaped together with the victims of plague and hunger. "27. The .Antichrist will, on sev- eral occasions, sue for peace, but the Seven Angel's who go before the Three Animals, the defenders of the Lamb, have proclaimed that victory shall only be accorded on condition that the Antichrist is 'crushed in the thresher. "28. The Three Animals, agents of the justice of the Lamb, cannot stop fighting whilst; there remain _soldiers of the Antichrist_ "29. What makes the decision of the Lamb so implacable is that the Antichrist has pretended to be Christian and has acted in His, name, and if lie does not perish the fruit of the Redemption will be lost and the gates of hell will prevail. against the Saviour. "30. It will readily be seen that the combat which is fought in the places where the Antichrist forges his weapons is no longer a human war. The Three Animals, the de- fenders n of the Lamb, will extermi- nate the last army of the Anti- christ; but the battlefield will be made a eharnelhouse as large as the greatest of cities, for the dead will have transfigured the place, making of it a chain of hillocks. "31. The Antichrist -will lose his grown, and will die in solitude and insanity. His empire will be di- vided into twenty-two States, but none of them will have either a fort, an army, or a ship. "32. The White Eagle, by order of Michael, will drive out the Crescent from Europe, where there will re- main none but Christians. He will establish himself in Constantinople. "33. Then will commence an era of peace and prosperity for the world, and there will be no more war, but each nation will be gov- erned by its conscience and will live in justice. "34. There will be . no more Lu- therans nor Schismatics, , but the Lamb will reign, and happiness will dawn upon •the race. "Happy they who shall escape the perils of this marvellous period, who shall taste of the fruit of the reign of the Spirit and the holy celebra- tion of humanity, which cannot take place until.after'tilte- defeat of the . Ai tic'hrist." Notes on the Prophecy. (Fa _n the British Journal of As- trology). In the Prophecy it aa,ppe:ara" that the symbolism applied is as follows : The Black Eagle—Germany. The White Eagle—Russia. The other Eagle—Austria-Hun- gary, The Cock—France. , The Leopard—Belgium. The Lamb—Symbol of the Chris- tian faith, represented by Great Britain, under the sign of aries. The Antichrist—The Spirit of Evil animating the B1aok Eagle, and generally symbolized by the Dragon or "winged'Beast." The Kaiser is the embodiment of the "Blood and Iron" cult, as op- posed to that of the peaceful arts and federation, He belongs to the Lutheran Church, while many, of his subjects are Roman Catholics. Attention is called to paragraph 4, in which he is said to have only one arm (the Kaiser has one arm with- ered and also a short leg, and he mounts his horse by the wrong side). Paragraph 10 is quite des- criptive of the Gerlm.an method„of waging war on neutr=als and none - combatants. The mention of Pope Benedictus in paragraph 12 is re- markable ; his Holiness of that name has but recently been eletrted to the Eppel seat, The fact th:tt'there are many priests fighting, and fighting most bravely, ,in the ranks of.the Allies- is aa• clear fulfillment of pare - graphs 9 ,axtd 13, All e ogial and spiritual differences -acre abolished in, -the' field: :All soldveris:ore com- rades. In the course of the present war we find striking examples of this: -facet inthe many,! priestswho go under fire with the greatest cour- age, and aazt fight and clay in the (Meted -cause of their beloved noun- try. Paragraph 15 giveaa,us an idea of the awful Carnage etliat� wyi,11 at-., land•this• w1s,r.. Roane in the seconlct? century had •a population of about 2,000,000-- a fact w hiall must have been known to Friar Jehn,.who was obviously a ii,oiiianist. k'raragi aph 16 puts this war do its proper spiry - teal. level, It° is a war agaitist the tyranny of the autocrat., materialis- tic philo,eophy, and the ozie-man; creed of the, German cult. 1t re- gards,all'humans as embodiments of spiritual force's which, :at this time, are massed together for the coming "tribulation.” If Truth and Equity, Peace and n d Justice have their repre- sentatives among men,SO also have those demoniacal powers who are dominated by' the Father of Lies and the Great Accuser, There is noth- ing specific in the date "towards the year 2000," but the fact that we are in the twentieth century, while the writer of this prophecy lived in the sixteenth, appears at Iea4t a. credit. able estimate. It can literally be said that blood- has been shell in all the four elements of fire, air, water and earth, as stated in paragraph 19, foe the hated incendiary has, spared neither palace nor cottage, erected edifice nor common 'hostel, All have been burnedand devastat- ed; while women and children have been slaughtered aa ruthlessly as the most active troops,; whose blood has mingled with the Waters in The Rain -filled Trenches, where it has not soddened the earth about them, or been spilled in lid - air in the course of some adventur- ous pursuit of the •enemy's air -craft. Asstated in paragraph 26, the exi- gencies of the was and the great number of fatalities have prevented the proper interment of the dead. Often enough, especially in Bel- gium, the figbltei's have been driven out of their positions and forced to retire, leaving 'their dead and wounded to the mercy of the enemy. Paragraph 27 appears to give little: hope of hostilities coming to an end at a near" date, for the "several occasions" on which the Antichrist sues for peace. must be sundered by great battles and even whole cam- paigns. The Spirit has entered into eiir' troops .and has impressed the minds of our rulers, so that it is • a: fixed • determination that -this war is to be one of "finality, -a,nd, if need be, of annibivation, so that never again shall the ambition and arrogance of -one man threaten the peace of -the world. Have you put the question to yourself.: What if. Antichrist should win Claiming, as he now does, to be subregulus dei, he would then claim to be a god :himself, and his -blood -engorged brain would present him to the world as the "Man -child ruling the nations with a rod of iron." Plutb- erat and autocrat, the -blasphemer would bnacket his name with that of the Most High. The world would be enslaved to tyranny and oppression, and all the peaceful arts would per- ish. Hell would be let loose urian the earth, and the planet Would be given over to destruction. "Here is the patience and faith of saints." Paragraph 30 of the^-praphecy tells us of final victory over the Anti- christ, and that the tribulation is not in vain. Paragraph 31 con- firms our belief in the ultimate des- tiny of the Kaiser ,and his kingdom. But it,also informs us that Russia will drive out the Turks from Eu rope and beoome keeper , of ' the :gates of the East. Finally, in para- -graph 34, we learn 'that there -Will be no more sectaries and schisms, :but that the, Spirit of Christ will animate the nations and induce a period of happiness and prosperity. over the world. Another Prophecy. -Dom Boseo, a :priest at Turin, ;founder of -the 'Sa71esian Order, -, ho. died,about•ten years ago, also -pro- phherwied i the . war. His -prophecy was- 'published. in Le 'Matin (Paris), in June, 1901, as follows : "A European war will break out. in 1913 or 1914. Germanywill be -diannembered; not, however, before -she edhall`'hlave penetrated into the heart of France. 'there a mighty !arm will hurl her back across the Rhine. The man of pride will -see 'his tree shattered and crushed to the roots and trodden under foot by all. The great batttle will take plate between'the'two days, of Dur Lady, namely,•between August' 15th and September 15th, when the:Pope is real and alive again. Belgium will undergo great suffering, from which she will emerge inere.ased in strength and admired by all. Po- land will regain her rights." 7;louselzold hints. The secret of 'boiling rice is to. put it into, plenty of boiling water at the !start. To remove stains from •a rain- proof coat rub with a little eucalyp- tus oil on a piece of flannel. If oneor two teaspoonfuls of su- gar are added to turnips when cooking they will be improved. ,Carbolic acid is a good disinfeet- aut, but: etailess diluted with at least 20 times itis bulk of water. The most, obstinate coffee stains can 'be removed by a solubion of lukewarm water and the yolk of an egg. When toilet' °reams of various"' sorts get spilled on dresser covers benzine quickly removes them 'and leaves no trace behind. , Of the "fuel foods needed for, win- ter, none is more palpatab'ie than breakfast baton, which the econo- mieal bay by the piece :rather:than by the pound. A stale loaf oan be made as „fresh. as new if wrapped an a damp cil'oth for a oo•itple ref tnintttee, and;. then plated in the oven for half ani,lieur, CS ... 'uw�aul, eiawu.cnu ct,o,U '!Y'.O�a V11 �7R (.'•ale Recipes. 'White fruit (.';tree. ---,One-half clip of butter, one cup of sugar, one and a half cups of flour, one-half cup of mill:, two eggs, one-lialf cup of nub meats, oral -Jere if you ehoose,. cup up fine or rather coarse; as you will, one-half aup or more cif fruit cub fine—dates, figs,a few rats;ns —a scant teaspooli, of cinnaarem er not., a fourth teaspoon of almond extract, and whole -fruit and nuts to decorate the top, `Sift the. slignr, add the butter,: and tub the two to a cream, to which add she -cinnamon orother powdered spices, stirring them in, �tliex heat in the well beaten yolks of the eggs. Add the milk and flour alternately. A level teaspoon of baking powder may be added to the flour, but it is not needed, espeeially if the eggs are fresh, and the cake is of .'better tex- ture without it wild perha.pps easier to bake. Stir in the nuts and'the fruit, which has been rubbed in flour so that every piece is separ- ate: Then •add the whites of 'the eggs beaten stiff and finally, the al- mond flavoring. Decorate the tops so as to cover ib thickly with fruit and nubs, !brush over with whites of eggs and bake for one hour in a slow oven, in a well oiled and pa- per lined pan of a narrow sort and deep. Use oil instead of :putter to grease ;pan, as it does nob burn so readily, This cake can be eaten on the day itis made,' as it is isoit and of good flavor, but is better a day or so later. To Decorate Fruit Cake.—One way to decorate a cake like the white cake and cover the whole top, as is the present custom, is to start by placing a candied cherry in the centre • and two others half way be- tween it and theends of the pan. Place around. -these cherries whole or the; halves of blanched almonds, „thee smallpoints a in, making ,daisy.- like• figures; the nuts forming the petals. Make a border of any nubs you choose, .alternating halves of peanuts and peeans, then fill in the space with nuts, lents .of dates and figs, or what you choose. Pecan Cake.—With eae,tly the same foundation as for white fruit cake, use half a cup or more of chopped pecans• and bake in •a square tin with low sides,: and ice. You may double the recipes, bake two squares, and make ,a nut and fruit filling and icing if you choose. Perhaps it is. ,better to 'use the leak- ing powder in this •case. Bake .forty five minutes. Chopped hickory nuts. instead of pecans,may be used, Chocolate Cream Ieing.—Boil to- gether a eup and a half of granu- lated sugar and half a cup of milk until it forms a soft ball when drop- ped in water. • Great eat e must be takennot to boil ita minute too long. Take from the fire, add van-. ilia to flavor, and beat until white, vet soft' -and creamy..Watch. close- ly, lest it get too stiff andspread, easily. II it has 'been cooked a min-' p;te too long it: will. stiffen ,quickly. Spread• smoothly over !the cake, pr over squares of it. -Melt an ounce or two of unsweetened or sweeten- ed chocolate over 'boiling water and epread'bover :white icing. Qake 'so iced and out in small squares is dainty and !satisfactory. )e'rtzit and. Nut.Cookies.-By prate. ticalIy the same recipe make'a frixit cooky,.. using a littile more..fioar, so that they can be rolled out. The following -measure 'will '• nzake about three dozen or more :sanall<cookies, which are prettiest if out out with the cutters which slake, fancy edges, heart shapes, diamonds, etc. Medium sized cookies are easier to bake than small ones, and the larg- er ones easier yet. Cream a cup of M5, of7X let 21 CI; TAINS • We unhesitatingly recommend Magic ;Batting 'Powder as boing the test,' purest and ,moat healthful ,baking pow.. der that it' is possible to producer CONTAINS NO ALUM ,All iezdients are plainly printed on the label. 0 L GILILETT CO.LTD TORONTO, ONT. WINNIPEGeMONTREAL istrA°." v�► sifted sugar and half a cup of but- ter, and spices if you choose—hall a teaspoon of • several—the 'beaten yolks of two eggs, and half,,a cup of chopped nuts and half a cap of floured clipped fruit, and the flour from one and a half to two cups, Fold in the sitiffl' beiaten whites .of eggs, sift over a little flour, turn out on a board, roll out and cut, put on greased paper in a large baking tin or on the bottom of same, brush aver with white of egg and then sprinkle with sugar. Bake for twelve minutes in a moderate even. Mock Angel Cake,—An inexpen- sive cake to 'cut up into little shapes and ice and decorate with different nuts and little candies is the mock angel cake. Silt to- gether four or five times one -cup of sugar with three level teaspoons of. baking powder; mix with one cup of ,hot: milk and one teaspoon of vanilla, and finally add :the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, and bake in an ungreased pan for forty min- uteis, or divide and bake in two layers. The crust of this .will have flavor like the real angel cake' if half a teaspoon of vanilla and about • as .much of- almond' extract is used. This.may be iced with a wahite:frosting or is ` 'good- with ehoeo•]ate. sareit iaK+wvevec►�¢ass • Young Folks- rflc Seeing Eyes. Eleanor had always hoped that soiue day a fairy would grant her awish. She had a wish all ready and waiting. 'The wish•Ithat she had. saved for the •coming of the fairy was (this—that she migtht have the Seeing Eyes. Eleanor ' was not blind. If you have thought fairy thoughts, you will know that the :Seeing Eyes are eyes that see be- hind and beneath, and into every- thing. Anyone can ,see an apple ; but The Seeing Eyes look straight through to the heart, and baste to the pink and white blossoms,' and forward to the orchard that, might grow -from the seeds. The £airy never appeared, but El- eanor's wish eanile true without any fairy, and she came'to have the See- ing Eyes. The first time that she Was a!]le to use 'them was at a ehildfe 'birthday ,party. ,Eleanor was eight years old, and ordinary eyes 'would have e id that every one of the children ttherewas eightyears old: but etrangely enough; Eleanor saw that the larg- edtY'boy- of 411 WWS.ozily:six,. and.bha+t: he wished 'he had not come. No one could•'have discovered -it without the Seeing Eyes, far that big young boy ran about, and laughed loudly, and said many- silly ' things. The Other children :made fun of him, and they supposed that he liked it, be cause he. laughed, Only Eleanor saw that 'he was ready Ito cry, and that he was moving nearer and nearer to the door. Eleanor ,of the .Se:ging Eyes be. gan to run about, too, and to make all the children laugh, until they fa•rgot the buy ; when the ' Seeing Eyes saw that his tears would not fall, and that he' had' stopped lool- .,i.ng toward the door, Eleanor chase a game, !that she knew he :liked. The ,otiller time, that' Eleanor prov- ed that she had Seeing Eyes was when she rang the door -bell of the Castle. The Castle was a'dark, stone house, in which lived an old man. To :common, eyes he looked cross, Because he looked so cross, and tithe Castle so dark, the children of the town ran post; and if one saw a face at the window, he would cry out to the others, "There he is !" and they would all run even faster. Eleanor dared to ring the door- bell ! A 'bolt was pulled 'back, the door creaked open, and there stood the cross old man! "Please help my dog," she said. "He has a splinter in his foot." The little 'black-and-tan -clog held up one foot. and moaned with ,pain. The old man bent forward .eager- • 1y, and all the children shut their ordinary eyes,. for fear they shot`tl•d see him hurt the li:ttile dog. ;Butt they opened thein;. again when thea • heard the man say, "Come, let me see it!" His voice was wonder- fully gentle, and :the dog held our. his sore paw,' and- kept .p•erfectly still, while 'the man drew out the splinter. ma itEleanor. T e 11 n m ed The old s at and said, Come and see me some day. I should like to talk with a girl who loves :animals." With �� th ordinary eyes a -chibd would never have done these two things that Eleanor did ; 'but Eleanor be- lieves that She child who wishes with all his heart for the Seeint Eyes will find that the wish comes ts•ue. :Youth's Com anion. When pouring boiled milk oz water into a tumbler or glass dish ,stand the tumbler or dish on a knife' and the glass will neither break nor crack, Venetian blinds can be made to look like new if you rub the laths with a piece of rag dipped in warm linseed oil, and then well polish the wood -With a soft duster. • A substitute for .whipnled cream Take the whites of two eggs and one banana sliced, and beat till stiff. The `banana will dissolve and it will be as good as cream. Mouse holes can ,be filled up with putty, 'but putty alone is not likely to, do much good. The mise soon Make a way for themselves through it, ,but if the underside of the putty be covered with cayenne -pepper or mustard .you will find an. immediate improvement. Corn beef makes a pleasant. change and it, is e•eonamical. Plan to have it cooked when the lawn - dry -fire is, hot, serve it hot for, thin- ner, then ',sliced cold . with baked beans, and the fatty parts and the uniesiratbl'e ends will grind up and Make an excelllent corn beef hash .for breakfast. • Germ..an lie'eetiits , Learning•° to; Use `.`13uyozzets." The Germans have cozne to have a wholesome resect for. the bayonet eine° the slhowed p yo d allied �.rmie�s� them it', was not en obsolete weapon and, a squad o recruits arc here seen learning with long t � , q f ng. to fight padded sfrek's:.of the length arid weighs of the'r+ifle With bayonet fixed. They are well proteotcd against any possible injury..