Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-09-07
INFLUENCE ON HEBREW IL ON
LITERATURE
j. A. Peake.

94ieh LiteldluTe may De readily seen
from the following quotations, all of
them giving more or less clear evil
dence of the writer's knowledge of
the eleventh chapter of the Epistle
to the Hebrews. The list is far from
exhaustive, in fact it barely introdu-
ces the matter.
1t has been said: ITO estimate
the influence of King James version
OF the Bible upon the English Ian
guage, one would have to lift himself
entirely out OF his intellectual at
mosphere, and, from a point outside
view himself and his contemporaries
Ruskin has to some extent done this
In his own case, when he asserts that
to his knowledge of the Bible forced
upon him in youth by his mother, he
owes the best part of his style and
taste in literature. (Practerita chaps.
l and 2.
l have seen curious child apply
Ing to his ear the convolutions of
smooth-lipped shell, and his counte-
nance soon frightened with joy; for
murmurings from in them were heard
whereby to his belief the monitor ex-
pressed mysterious union with it's
native sea, E EN- such shell the uni
verse itself is to the ear of Faith;
and there are times, | doubt not,
When to you it doth impart authentic
tidings of invisible things, of central
peace subsisting at the heart of
endless agitation.
Wordsworth, Excursion, Blk. ".
For what contend the wise?
for nothing less
Than that the soul freed from
the bonds of sense,
And to her God restored by
evidence
Of things not seen drawn forth
from the recess,
Root there, and not in forms, here
holiness.
For faith, which to the Patri-
archs did dispense
Sure guidance ere a ceremonial
fence, etc.
Wordsworth, Excursion, Blk. ". |
Ibid Eccles Sonnets 1130.
Dante's reply to the Apostle Peter
who asked him: What is Faith?'
Is very marked.
Paradise "a. 52-S1.
As to the truthful pen, father, of
thy dear brother wrote it, who put |
with thee Rome into the good way,
Faith is the substance of things
hoped for, and argument of those
which are not seen; and this appears
to ME it's guiddity the things mystic
rious that here vouchsafe to me
their apparition unto all eyes below
are so concealed that all their being
lies in faith alone, wherein high
Hope proceeds to base herself, and
so Faith takes the place and rank
of substance. And it behooveth us
from our belief to draw conclusions
without other sight; and hence Faith
takes the place of argument.
Then the immortal Milton in Para
disc Lost, Y II, 126-tells us in his
account of the call of Abraham:
He straight obeyed, not knowing
to what land, yet firm believes.
see him with what faith he leaves
his gods, his friends, and native soil,
Canaan he now attains; l see his
tents pitched about Sechem there by
promise he receives gift to his pro-
geny of all that land.
And Spenser
Through knowledge we behold the
worlds creation,
How in his cradle first he foster
ed avs;
And judge of Natures cunning
operation,
How things she formed of
formless mass.
Tears OF the Muses., Urania, 400.
Bacon certainly quotes verse in
writing on the heather views of
1--WE know by faith, that all things
are but the oracle of sense, the mat
ter and fabric of the world being
justly attributed to a creator"
Wisdom of the ancents, XII.
Whittier says SO beautifully:
And earth, which seemed to the
fathers meant
But as a pilgrims wayside tent,
A nightly shelter to fold away
When the Lord should call at
he break of day.
The following exquisite passage is