Word: prophetizer
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...Moslems have a belief similar to our Second Adventism. There were twelve Imams, the last of whom was expected to restore the Caliphate to the family of the prophet, and to bring universal peace. The last Imam, however, was born and died but things went on as before. His adherents then said that he was not really dead, but would return again and complete his work as El Mahdi, "he who is guided by God." Many have taken this title, but all have eventually met with defeat and death. The present Mahdi owes his success to a series of fortunate...
...chief source of revenue. The hard-headed merchants, who had enlarged their minds by travel, were by no means as captivated by the doctrine of the would-be reformer as were the savage tribes of the desert. Mecca surrendered, not to the religion or personal influence of the prophet, but to a superior armed force, and that only when by the complete coercion of the roving tribes, their commercial supremacy was no longer in danger...
...attends the class day exercises at Columbia was present and received each speaker warmly. H. D. Young, the president of the class, presided. The speakers were C. H. Young, orator, who delivered the address of welcome; J. J. Mapes, class historian; L. C. Reamer, poet; C. S. Baldwin, class prophet; W. C. Humphreys made the presentation, in which it is customary for the speaker to "spring gags" on his class mates. The exercises closed with the singing of the ode by the class...
READINGS FROM THE HEBREW PROPHETS.On successive Wednesday evenings, Professor Lyon is giving in Sever 11 a course of public readings from the Hebrew Prophets. Teh passages read will be such as illustrate the style of the prophet and the course of the prophetic thought...
...second reading from the Hebrew prophets was given last evening in Sever 11 by Professor Lyon upon the Book of Isaiah. It is impossible to understand the prophets without a knowledge of the moral and political conditions of the time. Besides the internal evidence of the Bible, much information is given us by the recent Assyrian and Babylonian discoveries. Isaiah lived in that period of the Assyrian invasion of Palestine, and was a contemporary of four Assyrian kings. He lived at the court of Jerusalem during most of his life, filling the positions of court preacher, physician and counsellor. Isaiah...