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Land of Egypt. Joseph Smith Jr. had broken loose and Nauvoo, with 10,000 Mormons, swelled larger than any city in the state. Smith ruled by revelations -invariably convenient ones-by hellfire threats and a genial disposition. Besides being Prophet, he was judge, mayor and general of his own militia. When he said God had told him to start up polygamy as it had been in the days of Abraham and Solomon, none dreamed that the motive was not pious procreation, though a crony of the Prophet's was a "professor of midwifery," and Smith, a handsome six-footer...
...Glazounov 7. Furlana from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli 8. Tufts Songs a. That Mascot P. B. Lewis b. Brown and Blue E. A. Newton c. Dear Alma Mater L. R. Lewis 9. Medley-Fantasia on Tufts Aira J. W. Morton 10. Waltz, "La Barcarolle" Waldteufel 11. Coronation March from "The Prophet" Meyerbeer
Taft Calls Him Leader and Prophet...
Tributes to President Eliot's 40 years of untiring service in the cause of Harvard and the advancement of education were necessarily many. Of his service to the nation: "Dr. Eliot is a leader and a prophet of the people in the true sense. His primacy in all educational reform, his interest in adjusting the equities of the laborer and the capitalist, and the useful candor with which he points out the shortcomings of each, his abiding enthusiasm for the promotion of municipal governments in which the welfare of the citizen is most intimately bound up, his yearning...
About the time of Martin Luther (1483 to 1546), there arose among these people a prophet protesting against Hinduism on the one hand and Muhammadanism on the other. His name was Nanak. He taught that God was neither Allah nor Ram, but simply God. He rejected the Hindu idols, caste-system, concremation of widows (suttee), pilgrimages to sacred rivers (TIME, Feb. 9). He forbade wine, tobacco, infanticide. His essential difference from Christianity was a belief in transmigration and fatalism...