A man who claims 10 be the "new Messiah," and professes to be able to work miracles, recently caused intense excitement in the South German State of Wurtemburg.
Scantily clothed, unshaved. and with flowing hair, he is touring the country calling on the inhabitants "to do penance, for the end of the world is at hand.' His claim ro, work miracles is accepted by vil: lagers and townspeople alike, and hundreds of sick, consumptives, weak-minded, war cripples, deaf and dumb are flocking to demand his ministrations, not only from various parts of Wurtemburg and from other German States, but, according to the local newspapers, from Austria and Switzerland.
The "prophet's" call to repentance is meeting with a wonderful response, workmen leaving the fac-varies and farm hands leaving the fields in order to spend, in prayer and meditation, the short time remaining before, as the "New Mes-slab" prophesies, "the world disappears amid thunder, earthquakes, and lightning."
An effort on the part of the Wur-tem burg authorities to persuade the "prophet" to leave the country has foundered on the reluctance of his followers to let him go.
The Munich "Aedizinische Wochenschrifit," after mentioning that followers of the prophet claim that they are sble to see and converse with angels, devils, and ghosts, {urges the Berlin Government to intervene in the interests of public health, which is endangered by the presence of thousands of sick people who, as mentioned, are hurrying to the prophet in the hope of being cured.
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