Daily Republican., 1889-03-05


not ceass proclaiming TO the public the
marvellous sayings aud doines of the
mightiest man OF the age; the great and
mighty Yetto; the sage aud philoso-
pher OF the nineteenth century. 1t 10 en-
old maxim, that prophet is not without
honor care in his own country. But this
will not strictly apply to our ad-
mired friend Veto. From the fact that
he has achieved greatness and honor,
even In his own country, aud whilst ]
greatly admire the rising star for fame,
on account of his numerous proverbs and |
wise sayings, which rival, II they do not
excel the sayings and dolngs of King |
David OF old, and his distinguished son,
Solomon. l am forcibly reminded Of
your latest predictions, in reply 10 your
admirer; that you are not q success as a
prophet, or else you failed to consult the
Planet under which your admircr was
torn. In one Of your visions by night or
day, you seem to have seen your supposed
admirer residing In distant land; at
least, beyond the confines OF the village Of
Claymont, and the lands lying around
and about the same or adjacent thereto.
Yea, you seem to have had two visions,
in which your admirer stood up before
you, II may be allowed to judge OF
your delineations Of this parsonage At
one time you describe this person as
masculine; college graduate, and
fellow OF one Of the learned professions;
and 10 the other instance you behold
your admirer, and pronounce that 1t Is
| female that has been 80 much delighted
AZ youf mighty sayings, and your wise
teachings, and who desires to honor you
for the same.
Now certainly, II you possess the wis
dom of Solomon (Which / have been
willing to accord to your, you should
have known that your admrer resides In
your immediate vicinity, and that there
Ia at least one man who Ia not without
honor, even amongst his immediate
neighbors, aud that man is Yetto, Zone
of the immortal names that was not born
to de-" and am surprised that so great
and wise man as yourself should not
fully appreciate how greatly you are ad
mired AZ home, even by those who do not
fully walk in the straiPht and narrow
path that you have marked out In your
proverbs for the truly good and faithful
TO follow. Now, my good friend Veto,
with all thy greatness, still one thing
thou lackest, to wit, charity. If your ad-
nirer has erred in her views concerning
your talents, or your virtues, be chart
table with her, and do not attempt to ad-
minister pills so large to her that would
choke her TO death, as you say in your
last you appear to have done. But not so,
your admirer still lives, aud almost daily
beholds the object of her admiration, and
she would advise you to stick to your
maxims and proverbs, and not attempt
to compound and administer Ills to your
admirers, for your venture in that line
has not been any greater success than
your prophecy concerning the identity Of
: your admirer. AS philosopher you are
, undoubtedly success, out as prophet
and physician you must ultimately cou'
: Tess you are failure. Now, my dearly
admired friend, do not attempt to exec
ia too many things at one and the SAINT
time. Even the former great man Solo,
, mon must have made similar mistakes Oh
D he would not have exclaimed in review
Y ing his past dolngs: VANITY of vanities
! yea, all is vanity"
4 Now as to the authors of the old Sacret
i writings. Il do not mean the new version
q of Yetto), well who were theyi This is
problem which the learned men of pas
: ages have never been able to fully solve
- the names OF many OF them are foreve
a lost, they are buried In the undlscovere
~ relics OF antiquity, at least they hav
y, been, and arc still so buried, unless Yet
: to has recently unearthed them. Ii TO
!, we shall fully expect TO see In his neS
a version OF the Eoly Writings, which az
= informed he is now compiling, a com
- pIete and fully authenticated statemen;
10 when aud by whom all the dlfIereI
, chapters of the good old book were writ
"a ten. Although your admirer Is not
. teacher of theology, nor an expert /
- Biblical history, she has, somewhat a
y least. perused the works OF Homer, Trt
n eelles, Stow, West, Smith, CLARK, Ben
a son and others, to ascertain, when, an
: by whom the different books of the Oh
: Testament were written, and after 81
:, doing. she is still left to conjecture 70
!, herself who penned the greater portlo
:. of them, Just as tue distinguished author
= above quoted, freely admit they had b
7 do. But trust Yetto's new version vii
a not leave this important matter open I
.y conjecture In the future. From the bes
/, authenticated histories of the Bible,
10 have been able to find the separate book
y of which 1t consists were composed q
% different periods d ring 1915 years, irOr
~ the year 1890 before Christ, when tn
in book of Job is said to have been writer
In to the year 90 years after Christ, whe
In the book of Revelation Tin the New Tel
tameLt) of st. John was written.
,e BY all of the authors above mentione
Id n Is admitted that the book OF Job is I'll
or Oldest book in the world. Now then, VIII
ri was its authorl Surely not Job himsel
but probably by Elihu, Solomon or Isaiah
as West says, and others by some anony
nous person. Now as to the book {
4. Palms, the Hebrew of which mean
's PRAISES" Who wrote this books Tn
IA general answer would be that David wrot
30 the book OF Psalms. Did hea Let us &c
what portion Of them even the author
no above agree upon were written by Davic
v They say that Pealms l to Al pretty eel
Il tainly were written by David, a of theI
IN by authors entirely uHknOwn, and
ii number of others were supposed to hav
IA been written by Asaph and the sons {
m Korah. Now then the book OF Proverbs
ID All, here is where am treading on daT
gerous ground, perhaps, in the opinion
In INV much admired friend Yetto. Well
o. 1t be so, perhaps Veto has so lar pr'
re crossed with his new version OF the sacre
~ writings that he can iuform me withou
n the shadow of doubt, Notwithstanding
a. the opinions of many authors, the preci'
ho time when the book of Proverbs Wi
ne written. / mean the old version, NJ
a. Yetto's new version, for most undoubted
in the new version they were written
Veto himself, and / would not dare
+o impute that any one OF them were NJ
10 formulated entirely By him. The autho
a. above quoted state, as Prof. Roswell
NJ Hitchcock, d. D., says In his history
~ the Bible that the book of Proverbs d
Is not assume rs present form until aEol
81 $50 years after the death Of Solomon, au