The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-13

turus with his sons. Knowest thou
the ordinances of heaven, Canst thou
set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Canst thou lift up thy voice TO the
clouds that abundance of water may
cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings
that they may go and say unto thee:
Here we are?" Compare now this
with a lofty bit from Browning 5
/ Saul:
See the king. | would help him but
cannot, the wishes fall through.
Could / wrestle to raise him from sor-
row.
To fill up his life, grow poor to enrich
starve my own out, l would
knowing which
| know that my service is perfect, on
speak through me now.
Would l suffer for him that l love, so
Wouldst thou. so wilt thou
! SO shall crown thee the topmost, mel
fablest, uttermost crown,
And thy love fill, infinitude wholly, nor
leave up nor down
/ One spot for the creature to stand in.
1t is by no breath,
/ Turn of eye. wave of hand that saliva
ton, joins issue with death.
/ AS thy love is discovered almighty, al
mighty be proved
| Thy power that exists with it and for
it of being beloved.
| Shakespeare is great, but set along
| side Paul he seems trivial The lntinl-
| ties are wrapped in simplest garb OF
| chaste expression. Much reading of the
| Bible will soon bring one to an under
standing of the mood i'm which all arr
| seems a juggling with tritles. The 81
| lent unhurrying remuneration or the
| east makes our modern flood of litera-
I .lnE
even the great literature of the poets
| loses beside the compression and
! massiveness of the Old Testament.
Packed With Sincerity.
1t is a literature untouched by ego
/ tism. because it is packed with SINGER
| ity. The Bible is of all books most
| thoroughly the brood mother OF the I'M
| est influences that have shaped life.
! Bunyan the tinker and Ruskin the
scholar are but types of the truth thai
| life both unlettered and cultured has
| been inspired and has wrought under
| the spirit of it all.
The scripture made me faint and
fear. yet ii kindled fire i'm my soul" And
John Ruskin in his 'Preterita" makes
| confession of his debt. The Bible mas
| the oIympian fire for the ages literary
! creators.
Owed Much to Bible.
| John Ruskin, without question one OF
| the masters of English literature, owed
I much of his vision. of the music anC
/ clarity of his style, to this book.
Says he: My mother forced me by
| steady, patient, daily toll to learn Ions
| chapters of the Bible by heart, as vel
as to read it every syllable through
| aloud, hard names and all, from Genesis
| to the apocalypse, about once year
! and to that neutrality-suspicious., accu-
| rate and resOlute-I owe, not only q
| knowledge of the book / find occasion
| ally serviceable. but much of my gen.
| eral power of taking pains, and the
! best part of my taste in literature
From Walter Scott, l might easily, a:
| grew older, have fallen to other peo-
pies novels, and Pope might have lee
me to take Johnson's English or Glib
bons' as types of language, but once
knowing the 32nd of Deuteronomy
| Psalm 119, LIST Corinthians, the Sermon
on the Mount and most of the ApOcaly-
pse. every syllable by heart, and having
| always a way of thinking with myself
| what words meant, it was not possible
for me, even in the fOOlishest time o.
| youth. to write entirely superflOus OF
formal English, and the affectagOn o