Prediction Fulfilled

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 20, 1912

Prediction Fulfilled

FREDERICK SIMPICH, United States consul at Bagdad, who has been investigating the ruins in Mesopotamia, writes that the Biblical prediction to the effect that "wild beasts shall roam through Babylon," is fulfilled to-day, when one sees countless jackals, and now and then a lion of the desert, prowling about the crumbling walls of the once famous city, which perished in pride and vainglory. A portion of a tower, identified as the Tower of Babel, has been unearthed; also a vast palace in ruins, with its mural decorations and great pillars—even some of the great halls themselves. What is supposed to be the banquet hall, where the "hand" appeared and wrote on the wall, "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin," in letters of light to a wicked and boastful king, has been located.

The excavation of "Nebuchadnezzar's Palace" has been partly accomplished by the German Oriental Society. It measures 1,200 feet by 1,500 feet, and, from all signs that are left, it must have been put up at prodigious cost. The extent of old Babylon, according to Mr. Simpich, is amazing. For miles and miles its mounds and ruins stretch along the Euphrates, as that river winds through the Arabian desert, which was once the most fertile country in the world.—Young People's Weekly.