A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 17
17 These signs appear at first sight to be very common ones, for solar and lunar eclipses and the falling of meteors are no extraordinary phenomena, and the power of religious leaders has often been shaken before. But on reflection it would appear that these are mighty signs, for although details are not given in the Gospels, these having been compiled a considerable time after Jesus, the Islamic traditions specify a limitation concerning these eclipses which invests them with peculiar value as signs indicating the period when the Messiah would re-appear. This limitation is that these eclipses would occur in the lunar month of Ramazan and that the Moon would be eclipsed on the 13th and the Sun would be eclipsed on the 28th of the month. This concurrence has never before been witnessed in the time of any person claiming to be a prophet, but it has taken place in these days when the other signs have also been fulfilled. In the year 1894, eclipses of the Sun and the Moon were observed in the month of Ramazan on the 28th and the 13th of the month, respectively, as had been written. Again, the falling of meteors is a common enough phenomenon, especially during the month of November, but as soon as any remarkable feature is introduced into this phenomenon it will rank as a sign, just as wars, famines and pestilences, which are common visitations become signs under a combination of certain circumstances. We see that this sign has also been remarkably fulfilled in these days. Whenever the earth passes through the region of meteors this phenomenon is observed; but during the years 1866, 1872, 1879 and 1885 it was