p. 187 | MOTHER SHIPTON'S PROPHECY

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 18, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 12

MOTHER SHIPTON'S PROPHECY.

WE have already noticed in the REVIEW the fact that this pretended prophecy is a gross imposition; but we find in the February number of Our Rest a letter from Prof. Piazzi Smyth, giving facts in reference to this fraud, which will be of interest to our readers. He says:—

Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, Dec. 15 1879.

DEAR MR. WILSON: I have just sent your December Rest to my friend, Mr. Sydney Hall, asking him to write to you, having at my request three years ago made extensive inquiries at the British Museum, and found that the mischievous pretended prophecy of Mother Shipton, which you have unfortunately printed therein, is a gross falsehood of the last ten years; and it is to be regretted that its author, a man living near, at Brighton, cannot be put into the pillory for it. Real prophecy belongs to God alone. . . .

Yours very truly, PIAZZI SMYTH.

He also quotes from Lincoln Rayner, in the Leeds Mercury, as follows:—

“Mother Shipton’s Prophecies.”—Mr. Charles Hindley, of Brighton, in a letter to us has made a clean breast of having fabricated the prophecy quoted at p. 450 of our last volume, with some ten others, included in his reprint of a cheap-book version published in 1862.