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Ancestral voices prophesying war.
Ancestral voices prophesying war.
 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well 
that ye take heed, as unto read more 
 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well 
that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, 
until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any 
private interpretation. 
 Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life!
 The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
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 Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life!
 The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
  And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray! 
 Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet
 A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs
  Of read more 
 Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet
 A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs
  Of coming mischief is thy great delight,
   Good dost thou ne'er foretell nor bring to pass. 
 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A 
prophet is not without honour, save in read more 
 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A 
prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in 
his own house. 
 There is a history in all men's lives,
 Figuring the nature of the times deceased,
  The which read more 
 There is a history in all men's lives,
 Figuring the nature of the times deceased,
  The which observed, a man may prophesy,
   With a near aim, of the main chance of things
    As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
     And weak beginnings lie intreasured. 
 It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors
 To find out thet it looks like read more 
 It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors
 To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours. 
 My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow:
 Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.  
 My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow:
 Don't never prophesy--onless ye know. 
 I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
 [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.]  
 I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
 [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum.]