Word: prophetizer
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...actual engineering work in outside businesses, trips to industrial districts, research at the Marine Biological Station. The ingredients are not all original. Our American experimental schools inspired by Dewey, Wirt and others, have many of them. But the ensemble as Sanderson shaped it was unique. And Wells is his prophet...
With the eyes of a prophet Mr. Adams saw that the tendency carried with it grave defects and argued from the condition in America and the gradual spread of democracy in England that Oxford and Cambridge themselves must in time bow their heads to the "gods of efficiency and utility...
Down, back of the world, a new prophet has arisen. Fourteen million Moslems is the number of faithful in Eastern Russia, the Caucasus and Tashkent. They-or at any rate their so-called representatives-discovered the prophet, and, assembling at Ufa, capital of the Bashkir Republic, they elected him mufti. The name of the now sacred gentleman is Kiraeddin Ben Fakreddin. The conclave at Ufa is reported as having initiated a far-reaching program for the unification of Islam. Similar reports have come be- fore from greater centers than Ufa, and in connection with more noted men than Fakreddin...
Alvero Obregon, President of Mexico: " I wrote a letter to Wilbur P. Thirkield, M. E. Bishop of Mexico, Central America, North Andes. Said I: 'I believe frankly that your prestige as a prophet is not being compromised too much when you state that our tendency is toward prohibition, and that at an early date Mexico will enter into that state...
...seers and diviners, at Manchester, N. Y., in 1830. Instructed, he said, by revelation, Smith supposedly dug up a " supplement to the New Testament" written on thin gold plates, and known as The Book of Mormon. On the strength of this "revelation," which declared him to be "God's prophet, entitled to all obedience," Smith founded the Mormon body...