GERMAN EMPIRE'S END.
A STARTLING PROPHECY.
Five years more and the German Empire will come to an end. So at least says a prophecy made in the 13th century by a monk named Hermann who. died in the monastery of Lehnin, ; n Brandenburg, where he Wrote a work in Latin concerning the future destiny of Germany for many centuries. The work is styled the "Vaticinium Lehninense," and it is m verses after tho manner of the Sj billine books. The monks seem to have foretold the defeat at Jena and the constitution of the Germanic confederation in 1815. Unfortunately the prophetic Hermann foretells in plain language the downfall of tile Hobenzollorn dynasty, and William 11. is destined to be the last of his race to sit on the imperial throne. In 1840, William 1., King of Prussia, consulted a celebrated soothsayer, who in answer to his queries to'd him that he would ascend the throne ill 1849, that the German empire would be established in 1871, that ho would die in 1888, and that the German empire would come to an end in 1913. The first three prophecies have been fulfilled to the very letter.—Science Sittings'.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 341, 30 October 1908, Page 8
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