Before Madame de Thebes’ ominous prophesy concerning Halley’s Comet and its effects upon America were cabled over to this country, another, no less dire prediction of financial disaster in the United States, coincident with the appearance of Halley’s Comet, was made by W. E. Corey, the President of the American Steel Trust.
THE COMET OF 1910,
FROM A TELESCOPIC PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT GREENWICH.
Mr. Corey then warned his friends to “call in their money and get from under” because a calamitous financial crash and general business ruin would surely come during the Spring of 1910.
The most ominous of all prophesies connected with the coming of Halley’s Comet this year was made by the venerable General Ballington Booth, the head of the Salvation Army. Speaking in London, immediately after Halley’s Comet had been located, early this year, General Booth said:
“We are, this year, rapidly approaching the end of all things, with similar results, but far surpassing in horrors any disaster that has gone before.
“All things will be wound up. Besides a deluge of water sweeping parts of the world and its inhabitants there will be fierce destruction by fire.”
FAMOUS COMETS OF OLDEN TIMES
Bacon, the great English thinker, has said: “Comets have some action and effect on the universality of things.”
All Comets recorded in history, so Lubienitius has shown in his “Universal History of All Comets,” appeared in connection with some great event or catastrophe in the History of Man.