The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-07

vague and non. committal that they
may be so applied as to prove and
foretell anything that may be de-
sired. The Pathfinder has made d
study of these prophecies and is au-
thority on correctness. The Review
is always on the alert for any infor-
nation or instruction that will get
you right as to the truth of any
issue of general interest, and with a
keen knowledge of its requirements,
will give you the facts regarding
popular prophecies.
We do this in order that those
that like to know. the truth, may
have the facts before them and need
not be the victims of superstition
and fakery. These prophets are
either impostorS or self-decieVed
cranks.- Every, conceivable. .pfop hecy
has BEEN made with respect to This
wal; lot of it has been taken from
the Scriptures. some fromethe ST tars,
others from stgange signs and the &c J
ton of animals; and a whole lot Of
it is just made-up lies out of the
whole cloth. And this can be proven
from the fact that they all disagree
with one another.
Now, first. let us take up the most
notorious and most quoted prophecy
known as Mother Symptoms Proph-
ecy.' To get at the facts, who was
Mother Shipton, where did she live,
and when? Well, she was his
toricaI character who lived in Eng
land in the reign of Henry VIII, and
it is said she foretold the death of
Cardinal Wolsley and many other
eminent persons of that time. No
doubt she was a shreWd woman, a
good judge of human nature as well
as trained reader of character, and
she no doubt took advantage OF the
chldlike simplicity of the public in
order to reap a benefit from their
confidence, and she did it very ef-
fectively as millions of people all
over the world have placed as much
faith in Mother Shipton's prophecy
as they do in their Bible. They will
quote it on any and all occasions as
Gospel truth and point to the vari-
Gus things which it foretelIs and
have come true. Puck says What
fools these mortals be. -
Now let US get to the true history
of this famous prophecy of Mother
Shlpton. In 1862 an Englishman
named Charles Hendley published a
life of Mother Shipton and as a hoax
he included in it a poem of his own
makeup, and this is the prophecy
that so many people have been taken
in by.
Now follow me as to the prophecy.
Hendley wrote this poem in 1862,
during our civil war, as he after
wards frankly acknowledged, but he
pretended that it dated back to 1885
when Mother Shipton was still alive,
and that she had written it. 1t IS
not much trouble to investigate this
statement for in 1881 W. II |
Harrison of London published a
book called Mother Shipton In
vestigated," which tells the. whole
story. This prophecy caused a
lot of anxiety up to and including
1881, for was it not declared that
the world would come to an end in
that year? Well, did it, l should
say not. The sun and moon have
been on the job every minute since
and the little stars twinkle just the
same since as they did before, but
how ahout the nrOnhecv l? Lots of |
people had more faith than COM
Inon sense; sold their property
closed up their affairs and waited
from day to day for the end OF the
world to come, but 1881 came and
went like any other year and the