I look at it this way. There's a line of people and they're all trying to imagine what the lunch lady looks like or maybe there are more than one. Or maybe it's not a lunch lady but some other kind of lunch server, etc. They come up with descriptions, using their imagination to create images in anticipation of what the lunch lady has to offer them. From around the corner, one or maybe a few, who have seen the lunch lady have declared that there is only one lunch lady and try to send the message back to those who have not yet seen her. But as far as the people in that line are concerned, the lunch lady has declared that she is the only one who has the food and will serve them lunch.
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"No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done" (History of the Church, 4:540).
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