THE GERMAN EMPIRE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2687, 24 November 1908, Page 3

THE GERMAN EMPIRE.

A .STAUTLLN'G PROPHECY. In a recent issue of' Science Sittings' w e rpad :—" 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 Lebnin, in Bradenburg, where lie wrote a work in Latui concerning the future destiny of Germany for many centuries. Ihe work is styled the ' Vaticinium Lchninese,' aiyl it is in verses after the manner of the Sybilline books. The monks seem to have foretold the defeat at Jena and the constitution of the Germanic confederation in 1815. Unfortunately the prophetic Herman foretells in plain language the downfall of the Hohenzollern dynasty, and William 11. is destined to he 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 told him he would ascend the throne in 1849, I hat the German Empire would be established in 1871, that he 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.