A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 95
95 has not been able to restore it to its original shape; hundreds of towns have disappeared as completely as the remembrance and worship of God disappeared from Europe; the Arabs have asserted their national existence and have made united efforts for its realization, and Your Royal Highness has seen how in the hour of despair God heard the prayer of the Promised Messiah and vouchsafed victory to Britain! All this occurred within the limitation laid down by the prophecy, that is, within sixteen years of its publication, which took place in 1905. Again, Your Royal Highness has seen how the words relating to the Czar were literally fulfilled. I have mentioned this last, as this part of the prophecy is most significant. The prophecy indicated several things in respect to this portion: first, that the Czar’s Government would not be shaken by internal revolutions before the beginning of this war; secondly, that his Government would not survive the war, as it had been foretold that he would be reduced to a miserable plight during the war; thirdly, that he would be dethroned before his death; fourthly, that he would be the last Czar, for the words of the prophecy were directed against Czar as such, and not against any particular individual or monarch; and lastly, that he would not die suddenly but would be subjected to great humiliation, disgrace and torture. Now Your Royal Highness will observe how literally these words were fulfilled and the Czar was reduced to straits so miserable that not only friends wept for him but even enemies pitied him. In short, this prophecy was fulfilled so clearly and in so