Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-09-07

N'SAN
Phrases. One Bible phrase used
as a political Shiboleth, has had the
effect not only to sending some to
search the Scriptures to the exact
reference to Armageddon, but has
emphasized the value of such express
i've phraseology in both pulpit and
public life. lions Herald (Boston)
advance the contention that the
power of the Biblica vocabulary is
so great that the Bible ought to
be made course of study in the
public schools, beginning at a very
early age in the life of the child that
his thinking might be nodded and his
expressions of speech fashioned after
this Masterpiece The writer
paraphrases; eve should stand at
Armageddon and battle for what is
best in expressive Speech
There is nothing that will bring
the shaft that is shot in the heat of
debate, cap climax of oratory or put
to flight an adversary, like an apt
use of the Bible
All the great orators in politics and
religion, he declares, have understood
what power there is in the use of an
apt Biblical word Or quotation. Lin
coin practically won out ON the ia
nous quotation, "a house divided a.
gainst itself cannot stand-Ed. He
ascribed the vigor of Scotch sermons
to intelligent use'' of the Scriptures
The editorial even hints at a pos
sibility of lessening some of the pop
ularity of slang, tho this he does
not hope would entirely provide
substitute.
I'VE speak at times of the ex-
pressiyeness of slang-and it is ex-
pressive. 1t is nervous speech, coin
ed out of the necessity of the hour,
and because of its apparent fitness,
used all too much to the detriment
of pure English. While a study of
the Bible in the public school would
not result in the elimination of all
slang, nor yet would give us a gener-
alton of children quoting Biblical
phrases, it would result in giving to |
our vocabulary for general use and
for important purposes richness
and a virility that it has not at the
present time"
An intelligent knowledge of En-
glish Literature is impossible with
out a knowledge of the Bible-In an
other place will be found a short ar
ticle showing the influence of one
chapter upon some of the great
writers-Ed.
In Quest of Buried Buddhist EN-
pire.
Somewhere in what is now known
as Chinese Turkestan or Sinkiang
there flourished in ancient times,
about the third century, B. c., the
powerful empire of Soulan, or Shen-
shen. 1t was a Buddhist state, and
as late as 629 A. D., when the Chi
nese Buddhist Munk crossed the
country on his way to India, it was
found we'll populated, the inhabitants
being all believers in Buddhism. But
this once powerful state for some
reason yet unexplained, vanished
from the earth, and the region which
was once under the jurisdiction Lon
Ian is today nothing but a barren
desert of Taklamakan, absolutely I'M
inhabitated.
The disappearance of Lonlan has
long been topic of much discussion
among the Buddhist scholars of Jap
an, and Count Otan, Lord Abbot OF
the West Honganyi Temple at KY
OTTO, anxious to find a key to the mys-
terry. ordered the Rev. Zyicho Tachl-
bana to proceed to Chinese Turke-
stan and explore the site of the an
cient Buddhist state. A young man
of only twenty-five winters, short OF
stature, fragile in appearance, ana
almost feminine in manner, the ReV.
Tachibana, We are told by the Japa-
nese press, is nevertheless possessed
of indomitable courage and unflag-
ging energy. In 1908, when only
eighteen years old, he journeyed IN
Inner and Outer Mongolia chiefly
with a view to ascertain what would
be the best route to enter Lohlah'
Having thus mapped out his plan OF
journey he started on his second eX-
petition in September, 1910. In an
interview with the reporter OF the
Jill (Tokyo), this great traveller
who has just returned home from MS
Journey. tells of this expedition as /