UNCOMFORTABLE PROPHECIES.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5302, 24 September 1885, Page 3

UNCOMFORTABLE PROPHECIES.

Professor Grimmer in a pamphlet published in .1879 predicted seven years of disaster and famine, beginning with 1880, and ending with 1887, during which the world will be a hell of strife and carnage. He said :— "From ISSOto 1887 will be one universal carnival of death, Asia will be depopulated, Europe nearly so. America, will lose fifteen millions of her people. Besides a plague we are to have storms and tidal waves, mountains are to toss their heads thro' the choicest valleys, navigators will be lost by +he thousands owing to the capricious deflexures of the magnetic needle, and islands wiir appear and disappear in the ocean. All the beasts, birds, and fishes will be diseased, famine and civil strife will destroy most of the Puman beings alive by plague, and finally 'two years if fire'— lßßo to 1887— will rage' with fury in every psut of the globe. In 1887 the Star of Bethlehem, will 'reappear in Cassiopiea's Chair,' the immediate results being universal war and portentous floods and shipwrecks. North America is to be again in civil war unless a ' Napoleon' arises to quell it, but during these terrible days the Pacific States will be a 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 reasons to be thankful." Somebody else has unearthed an old prophecy tor the year 1886 of a decidedly uncomfortable nature. It appears that in the Church of Oberemmel, near the city of Treveri, in Germany, there fs a stone tablet some centuries old, on which is cut the prophetic verse— in prose it may be rendered, " When Mark may bring us Easter, and Anthony shall sing praises at Pentecost, and John shall swing the censer at the feast of Corpus Domini, then shall the whole earth resound with weepings and .wailings." Now it so happens that next year Easter falls on St. Mark's Day, Pentecost on that of St. Anthony of Padua, and the Corpus Domini, comes on St John the Baptist's Day, June 24. Here, then (says a Home paper), are the first conditions of the prophecy fulfilled, so that now believers in prophecies, and anxious-mind-ed persons generally, have ©nly to sit down j and think of everything disagreeable that , can possibly happen to this poor old planet and the dwellers thereon between January I and December, 1886. And really if the cyclones, and earthquakes, and epidemics and "wars and rumors of wars," of the .years 1882-3-4-5 are to be eclipsed, the prospect is not an agreeable one.