AN GAODHAL.
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GAEL GLAS on the PROPHECIES.
(Fifth Letter.)
Nov. 20th, 1885,
To the Editor of the GÆL;
Dear Sir, — I now undertake to furnish the
readers of the Gael with my letter on the Day of
Judgment, and some of the unfulfilled scriptural
prophecies; but from the complicated and exten¬
sive nature of the subject, I do not propose to
supply more than a brief outline of the leading e¬
vents of the future. And because the space at my
disposal being limited, it will be necessary for me
to condense my opinions so that my dicta must
partake more of the character of original vaticinat¬
ions than of deductions from inspired prophetic
writings. I must however candidly disclaim all
pretensions to direct inspiration, unless any thing
particular has been revealed to me in dreams of
sleep; so that I almost solely rely upon my under¬
standing as the guide that has led me to the foll¬
owing important, curious and unique conclusions.
But although my opinions embrace a new de¬
parture in the role of prophetic explications, yet
I do not desire that any one should compromise
his religious principles by believing them, but I
publish them merely as a light to the future, for I
am positively convinced that the time will come
when they, or doctrines akin to them, will form the
base of a cultus, or creed that will ultimately lead to
the conversion of all mankind. But this announced
dispensation must proceed from the Catholic
church, and be formulated by her when she comes
to recognize certain facts hidden from her by di¬
vine purpose, until the time of the supposed end.
It appears to me very plainly, and I humbly
beg pardon for this presumption, that the whole
world is wallowing in the mire of profound error
in regard to the future, and that nothing of what
is beleived and expected in connection with the ge¬
neral judgdment will be literally realized. The
day of judgment is not a single day, but a period
of 111 years, more or less; it shall begin in the
year 1888, and end in the year 1999. But although
the beginning of the day of judgment may be
somewhat clearly inferred from the Apocalypse,
the exact time of its termination must remain con¬
jectural, and has never been made known to man.
But when all the governments upon earth shall
have come under the dominion of the Catholic
Church, then the seventh angel will sonnd his
trumpet announcing the triumph of the faith, and
that the time of the nations shall be no longer. —
Afterwards a happy state of things will set in
which shall never have an end, as is foretold by the
prophet Daniel. But as to the darkening of the
sun and moon before the great day of Almighty
God, this took place perhaps more than four hun¬
dred years ago, in the figurative oder: These are
the symbols of the Catholic Church; but although
darkened and discolored it is very remarkable that
they did not fall from heaven. But the stars be¬
gan to fall some three hundred and sixty years a¬
go, and are still falling; these are the Protestants,
who have fallen on the earth of worldly avarice;
they are the Nephalim, or intellectual giants
who have precipitated themselves down from the
heaven of faith — men of indomitable energy, know¬
ledge, scientific genius and progress: Their con¬
version will constitute one of the greatest glories
of the future. These God is about to overthrow by
means of a great impending religious crisis, but
their compeers the world will never again behold;
and after their fall, the powers of the human intel¬
lect will begin to greatly deteriorate: But when
extraordinary mental capacity characterizes a peo¬
ple generally, it is a sign rather of national repro¬
bation than of God's favor. Esau who sold his
birthright was a pompous man and cunning hunt¬
er, but his brother, Jacob, the heir of the blessings,
was a plain man, dwelling in frail, inexpensive
habitations. In Hebrew the noun "arur", which
signifies a curse, and the adjective "arum", cun¬
ning, are from the same root. Adam was a stupid
ignoramus before he had incurred God's anger;
And after Cain had received upon his murderous
brow the brand of malediction, his descendants in
the land of Nod, i. e. of the vagabond, became
workers in brass and iron, and men of great in¬
ventive genius. The pagan Egyptians, Greeks and
Romans were men of gigantic conceptions and un¬
rivalled capabilities in all the achievements which
they undertook. And so the wise Solomon could
not bring the works of his famous temple to ex¬
quisite perfection without the aid of an unbelie¬
ing Tyrian artificer. Before the Catholics of Ger¬
many and England had apostatized from the faith
they exhibited no remarkable degree of intellectual
superiority, but as soon as they had received the
baleful excommunication of the Vicar of Christ,
they soon began to develop into great poets, phil¬
osophers, scientific inventors, astute statemen and
famous generals. The historian Rollin affirms
that God apparently bestows, according to the
world's opinion, more showy and brillant gifts up¬
on his enemies than upon his own people; but he
further avers that the gifts of the latter are emi¬
nently superior in excellence to those of the for¬
mer, beeause they are given in the order of faith
and priceless Christian virtue. Mahomedanism
and Protestantism shall together fall about, or af¬
ter the year 1890, and their respective govern¬
ments shall come under the sway and power of
Catholicism. The conversion of the Jews to the
Catholic religion, and the rebuilding of Jerusalem
will, in due course, inevitably follow. Pastorini
opines that according to his judgment, the Locusts
mentioned in the 9th cap. of the Apocalypse are the
Protestants in general; but in this respect he is
only partly right, for the description given is only
of their chief representative or typical kingdom,
which is England. In Hebrew the word which
