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...important as this question may seem, there is another far more important-the Russian harvest. Now let us make a prophecy . . I foretold that Russian money would be stabilized sooner than in any of the other countries of Europe. Now I say that if Russia has good harvests coming two years in succession her wealth will be greater than the greatest credit she might obtain abroad...
During the tumult of the American election, the western world has not forgotten to watch the fulfillment of prophecies which foretold little good for English Liberals. The loss of two-thirds of their seats in Commons, with the adoption into Baldwin's new cabinet of a former Liberal, Winston Churchill, and Liberal-Coalitionists, are symptoms of the disappearance of the half-way party. In fundamental agreement with the Tory policy which intends to preserve the status quo in politics and economics with just the necessary minimum of flaunting promises to catch the worker's vote, the Liberals had really lost...
...Hughes, formerly of Boston and now transferred to Chicago, concluded the speech by which he concluded the Methodist World Conference† as follows: "Now we go forward to bear our testimony against all offensive war and to proclaim that the Hebrew prophets were not misguided fanatics when they foretold the swordless and spearless day of God. God has given us here the vision of a warless world. Lord, we go; and as we go, we preach...
...final break with the President, so often foretold, came at last on a by-issue. The Senate investigating committee requested authority for its representative to go through such files of the Department of Justice as it might designate. The Attorney General refused the request on the grounds that it was contrary to the public interest; that it would be misleading to" permit "a general fishing expedition among the files of the Department" bringing out documents piecemeal, unless entire files were examined and presented with proper explanation by the official in charge of each case...
...questions in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There is nothing in the word of God about them. If God had designed that his intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed of fifteen miles an hour by steam, he would have clearly foretold it by His holy prophets. It is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls down to hell...