The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-07
INrrLLEcrUAL LIFE WANING.

Professor I.owelf of Harvard. in the Harvard Graduates Magasine. says;
 Men come to college from different surroundings, and in different circum- stances, Some. who are poor, look up- on the college chiefly as step toward a future livelihood. This is especially true of those who intend to be teach CTS. Such men work hard, and in fact they often cannot remain unless they win scholarships. But they sometimes fail to get a full measure of what is quite as important as study; that Is, the benefit ofsocial intercourse with their comrades. Among the rich men, on the other hand, many come who have no serious intentions of any kind. Their life Is. in the main. harmless, but frivolous, decidedly indolent. and who'll 1y aimless. Apart from the negative of abstaining from evil, far too many students feel no great responsibility in college. They think that, however idle they may be there. they will work hard and make their mark after graduation. and this feel ing Is encouraged by the community tt large, which is constantly in the habit of repeating that the serious worker in college Is apt to amount to nothing afterward. and that the man who Is bad at examinations is likely to be good at making money. Tnere seems to be an impression not only among the stu. dents but in the world outside, that habits of incidence and of mental lax ity, the passing of ones time in the society of a small clique of friends. all of the same type, Is a good preparation fo- an industrious. energetic and use fal life."
 HOW THE BIBLE IS MADE
 PLAIN TO BARBARIANS.
 The Bible, or some portions of 1t, has been translated into over 400 lan- guages, while 1t is estimated that there are considerably over 1000 languages in which the Scriptures have so far never spoken One great difficulty m Bible translation Is the rendering into another tongue of ideas and words for which there Is no equivalent. When translating the Scriptures into the Es- quimau language a missionary had to render the Lamb of God" as "the lit- tie Seal of God" since sheep were un- known in Labrador, whereas seals were familiar obects to the natives.
 In some regions the sheep are entire- ly black, hence the difficulty in trans- lating white as wool" In many parts of the world fig trees. camels, snow ice. and scores of other things of which mention Is constantly made in the Bible are totally unknown. In Idzo. the language of the delta of the River Niger, there is no word for girl O. sister. In New Britain the trans iator was seeking some native idiom to carry the idea of a binding oath, when a chief suggested that the desired phrase was: "I would rather speak to my wife's mother than to do such-and such a thing"
 r,,t- ell was wrestling with the word love" and asked his native assistant what term he could use to express his fond ness for whatever he held dearest ur earth. The native promptly supplied the missing word. Later the mission ary was appalled, to find that the word he had used signified to the natives "a liking for putrid meat
 In British Columbia a missionary wanted his catechist to translate, A crown of glory that fadeth not away Tfis was done to the satisfaction Jf all concerned but ultimately the misSi on- ary found to his horrer that 1t had been rendered "A hat that never wears outi
 Still more surprising was the Pan dts comment on Genesis, xlvi. 4. Jo- |seph- shall put his hand uponV thine eyes" which obviously implies closing the eyes after death. This was now Dr. Hooper and his colleagues rend- cred 1t. forgetting that the Hindus have not this custom. After a time the Pan dit relieved his mind thus:
 q can't understand this story of Jo- seph. He seems such a good son, and his father so fond of him. How comes it. then, that they have a stand-up fight, and Joseph, being the stronger. hits his father on the eye so hard as to close it?' There was no help fer it but to render the passage simply, Joseph shall conduct thy funeral ctr- enemies