Word: prophetizer
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With the cuneiform inscriptions and the prophets Professor Lyon completed yesterday the course of public lectures. He said that the inscriptions interpret or illustrate every branch of Old Testament study, Genesis, the history, the poetry, the religion, and, to a special degree, the prophets. The Hebrew prophet is not, as the popular notion too often makes him, primarily a student of the distant future, whose chief function is predictive. On the contrary he is a reformer, a preacher of righteousness, a man of affairs, concerned with the present, and rarely, if ever, looking to the future except to draw thence...
...last evening, taking as his text John vii, 24 26, where Christ gives his testimony for John the Baptist and tells the people that John was not the reed shaken before the was not the reed shaken before the wind, nor the man clothed in soft raiment, but the prophet. These three symbols are types of characters that are before us to choose front; the reed is the man in college or in public life who is blown hither and thither by every breeze and unable to stand firm against temptation; the man in soft raiment is the being...
...Chambers of the District of Columbia: censor, H. W. Perrin of Pennsylvania; poet, D, L. Pierson of Pennsylania; class of '76 debater, J. M. Yearkle of Pennsylvania; class of '76 orator, Walter Lowrie of Pennsylvania; class orator Frank Palmer of Maine; master of ceremonies, K, L. Ames of Illinois; prophet, I. B. Smith of Iowa; class day committee, F. S. Antony, G. G. Belt; C. G. Brickham, D. D. Casement, G. m, Galt, C. R. Guerin, A. G. Jennings M. MacLaren, M. L. McDonald, W. R. Kimball, W. L. Phelps, William Piece G. V. Rickert, and Grant Weidman...
...next suras contained a prophecy. It is the only one which is found in the Koran, and is pointed to by the Mohammedans as a certain proof of the divine inspiration of the prophet. The prophecy which was delivered in one of the last suras of the Mecca period, is a distinct prediction of an historical event. The Persians have gained some successes over the Greeks, who were of the true belief. Mohammed predicted that the Greeks would triumph in the end, and they...
...next reading was from the second soras of the Medina period. In it is described the religion of Abraham, which the prophet professed to restore. He argues that the religion of Abraham antedates all others, and is therefore entitled to the preference. In the same suramany of the civil and religious laws are defined. Those in regard to charity are really praiseworthy...