Word: propheteers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...killed in Illinois, and his disciples were plunged into turmoil. After months of arguing, Brigham Young convinced a majority of the flock it was Smith's will to give control to an inner council called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. As its head, Young succeeded Smith as Prophet. Ever since, the presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has passed to the senior Quorum member...
Last week new controversy erupted over the legitimacy of that succession. The dustup results from the chance discovery of what appears to be a transcript of a blessing given by Smith to his son Joseph III. In it the Prophet declares the boy to be his chosen successor...
...Orwell been a better prophet, he would have predicted the advent not of Big Brother, but of Big Mother. Almost every Western industrial nation conforms to the slogan of the mother-state: "Debilitation through dependency...
...serve as a national test-track, measuring fads, products and ideas by their unique--and often contagious--standards. The sage of the tax revolt, touchstone of the most important social and economic movement of our era, seemed to emerge half from central casting and half from the Bible--the prophet come to save a nation, live and in color. His Jeremiad condemned demon government and its lecherous grope for the tax dollar; the reverberations of Howard Jarvis's leap in the dark still echo today, as his spiritual brethren control the White House, the Senate, and apparently, the national conscience...
Just as Jimmy Carter's 1977 Inaugural Address sent Americans scurrying to their Bibles in search of the Prophet Micah, Ronald Reagan last week set the nation wondering about Private Martin A. Treptow, an obscure World War I hero. The new President, inspired by a letter from an unnamed admirer, quoted a passage from Treptow'sdiary: "America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone...