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Show You Will Have TO Believe These. You may not believe in the prophets of the" Bible, but there are some "prophets" who have lived and worked almost before your very eyes and you will have to believe them. They have foreseen just what is happening in the world today and , told it in their way. Here are some of them: Tolstoy, the great Russian writer, Tennyson and Shaw of England, and Ibsen, the great Norwegian writer. Their great books 'have told, under a beautiful veneer of 'fine writing, the :de-spairing :de-spairing indictments of the present civilization; they have diagnosed di-agnosed its doom in every quarter of Europe and warned civilized ci-vilized men that civilization was dying of social septicemia." Tennyson was obsessed all his mature life by the disintegration of 19th century c'vilization even though he tried to trust to .the larger hope. He aDd the others were great secular seers. In every minute of this paper's life it has been proclaiming, in its own way, just what these men, and the prophets of the Bible have fortold. |