The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-27
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
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ye would that men should do TO you do
ye even so unto them: for this is the law
and the prophets. Enter ye in at this
| tthe IS mfstransiatfOnD strait gate, etc. :"
| And as we consider the strait gate Of the
golden rule we can easily see and realize
how strait II is and how few travel
| therein.
Again, our Saviour affirms that eternal
| life Is To know God and His Son. And
| from the first psalm we learn that this
| knowledge Is n godlixe experience or
life; for we there read. For the Lord
knoweth the way Of the righteous" How?
BY experience. God cannot know the way
OF the wicked because he never expert
| enced any such way For example. you
| cannot know or experience the taste and
effect of coffee unless you drink IT, A
| little thought eternal life being a
| knowledge OF God and His Son in connec-
tion with the declaration of the first
psalm ought to give almost anyone a
! good Idea of fhe essentials OF eternal
| life.
We talk learnedly of the circulation of
the blood and its absolute essentially
| for mans physical life But Moses the
Great was so familiar with the fact that
he not only declared the Hood to be the
| life, but took emphatic steps to impress
| this mighty truth upon the children of
Israel by forbidding them to eat and
drink blood
We Christians ring the changes upon
| the all important duty of making sac
rifices for the church; but Moses not only
commanded his followers to give one
tenth, but TO sacrifice the very best OF
their wealth in iocks and herds and first
fruits OF the harvest. And IL Christians
today would practice half the generosity
OF the children of Israel before they went
lusting after other gods. the Christian
churches would ha n IN
modate their attendants, neither would
there be In one year a mortgage on a
Christian church while missionaries
would start out in such numbers, zeal
and so well equipped that even Asia
and Africa would be counted as Chris
tian continents before the close OF the
present decade, and such an unprece-
dented revival OF righteousness (that is
doing just right would be inaugurated
that universal brotherhood or the golden
age foretod by Jewish and Christian
prophets, would step upon the threshold
OF the whole human family and soon
take up its abode In the hearts OF the
people
And right here let me say to every
reader, but more especially to amateur
writers. not 20 be surprised or discour-
aged to find that most OF their supposed
original thoughts were merely ancient
ideas clothed I'm new word gowns. Some
years ago 4 put INTO the nanuS OF my
friend. Mr.. Lee. OF the firm of Lee &
shepard. a manuscript story the title
OF which imagined a good hit and wholly
original IL was called "The Twin Cou-
sins" THAT Is an exc2llent title for a
story book remarked Mr.. Lee. but un-
fortunately for you we have story
book with the same title copyrighted by
us. a few years ago a lady Imagined
that she had made an important discov-
cry. and with n flourish OF trumpets
announced that she had discovered near
ly one hundred sayings OF Shakespeare
that were borrowed from other writers.
Shades OF a thousand departed writer's
whose names are immortal Where had
this new author lived all her days not To
know that at least the major portion OF
Shakespeare's plots Incidents and say
ings were borrowed, but clothed in new I
and richer dress phrases? \ few months /
ago | read pamphlet termed something
like New Thought" But every idea I
was fairly hackneyed aud | wrote. asking /
the author TO point out new idea I'm II. |
but have received no answer because the \
writer has failed TO flnd one Shakes I
peare stands at the head OF all writer's. /
Biblical authors alone excepted because \
OF his ability (as the great literary Worth I
like the late drcssmaker OF Paris) to /
clothe old bodies Of sayings In the most
attractive attire OF words As examples
u how easy II Is TO recothe common
sayings In new dresses take the follow
ing, those marked g are common sayings
while those marked II are reclothed:
e. Longw inded. rounda bout writersr-
n. Iahyrinthian redundancy.
G.. BE honest and lonely
n. BE righteous and have scant com
,any
&. Embarrassment OF riches.
r. Encumbcred with wealth
g. Continuous stream " sugary words.
r.. An uninterrupted flow OF saccha-
Inc language.
I could easily on volume OF common
ayinTs and rcciothe them. but N word
n the wise" etc
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