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Show MOTHER 8H IPTON'S PROPHECY. PRO-PHECY. How many times we have republished repub-lished '"Mother Sbipton's Prophecy" since we commenced an editorial career in 1841, we cannot now tell and now to gratify friends we republish' it again. "Mother Sbipton," m tradi ;tion has it, lived in England and was .buried at York. In 1 448 she made a rhyming propheoy, which attracted little attention until about 1G41 or nearly 200 years alter it was mads Then it was republished, and since that time has been more or less prominent promi-nent before the world. It iB a follows: fol-lows: Carringos without horses oh nil K And accidents fill the world with wnn- A round the world man's LhouKhla!haliilv In tho twinkling of an cyo; ou"y Waters shall yet more wonders d How fitraogo! Butyet thny .hall bo truo I be world uptide down shall bo A nd (told bo found at tho rout of a tree, rhrough hilid man shall ride And no borso, or a,s, bo at In - aid,.. U ndor water mpn shall walk, 'hall ride, shall sk-op, shall talk; In tho air men shall bo soon In white, in black, in froan-Iron froan-Iron shall on the water lliit,' As oasily a a woodon boat tio d dhnll be found and shown In lands not now known- Kna-laod shall at last admit a J0w. And lire and water shall wondorsdo-Ihe wondorsdo-Ihe world to an end will come In eighteen hundred and oiKliiy.uno. Except that tym timed in the last two hnea, every iUm jn the above has been verihed.-St Louis Christian Adoocate, |