Word: prophetizer
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...Kennedy worked with the appeasers, and although his faith was badly shaken during the Munich crisis, hoped settlement would be made, told Americans there would be no war in 1938. Last winter he changed tunes. With William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France, he became a prophet of doom, a skeleton at the feast. Again & again he croaked warnings that 1939 was a year of war. Certain it was that Kennedy was in Franklin Roosevelt's mind last Easter, when in bidding good-by to the citizens of Warm Springs, the President said: "I'll be back...
...just talked with God in an oak grove. "And it came to pass," reported ragged Joe, "that the Son spake unto me, saying, 'verily, verily, I say unto you, my servant Joseph, that a new church will be established in these latter days and you will be my prophet...
...political influence, which Lincoln and Douglas were glad to curry. Only during the Mormon pogroms that culminated in Joseph Smith's murder by lynch mobs in Carthage, 111. in 1844, was polygamy added for the first time to the list of Mormon iniquities. The charge was true enough, Prophet Smith having secretly married 27 wives...
...Prophet Smith always insisted that Mormon troubles were payment for their sins. He rarely approved armed resistance, since God would or would not protect them...
...When Prophet Smith's original wife, "Doubting" Emma, became suspicious of increasing recruits to a houseful of so-called foundling women, he sent her to St. Louis to buy supplies. After his murder Emma married a tavern keeper...