The Elon College Weekly.
THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY
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plus a divinity that makes Him a greater
poet than all, a perfect one.
W. p. LAWRENCE.
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^ was filled with gratitude for Peter's
SOCIETY IS BREEDING FROM ■ faithfulness and he was heard to exclaim,
THE BOTTOM UP. |" If things get round with me, easy shall
I be Peter’s cushion."
Whether scholarship is growing worse , Ministers, after passing through many
or not we do not know —we are inclined , struggles to prepare themselves to preach,
to think it is growing better—but we do | having gone to the church and preached
breeding could, often receive little
encouragement, either complimentary or
, financially. Only a few days ago I heard
alone will sustam this statement. We minister, who had been preachmg for
may go into any city or town and we j severaf years make this remard, " That
will find that the great majority of the ’ which has discouraged me most in my
people are of the lower class, and in the | '"inist.y is the lack of gratitude on the
, f 1 • I 11 r 1 I .L I part 01 church members."
homes of this class we will find also the,
greater majority of the citizens of tomor-1 should be for the earnest work of the
] row. Among the poor and low classes teachers, who often make sacrifices and
Old Peter, who had been for twenty characteristics of Lainb is hi"s familiarity,
five years a dignified coachman, became ' In his very introductions he addresses us
an ordinary plowman. Scott’s bi^ heart as if he were writing to us alone. His
cordial, " Reader," makes of him at once
j know that society in general is
] hom the lowest class up. Observation
a living personality and arouses an interest
in what follows. His writing also is
characterized by naturalness or ease. He
is quite unaffected and does not strain for
language or effect. His quiet and never
failing humor also lends a charm to his
productions. He seldom evokes more
than a smile, but the frequent ripples of
humor which he arouses, enlivens for us
the pages of his essays.
He posses a vivid and fertile imagina
tion with which is allied extraordinary
descriptive power. As a result he can
lead us into any field or scene of thought,
or imagination, however unreal or fan
tastical, and hold our attentions while
there.
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I cation and will simply live the life of their | brother, sister or
TUESDAY. APRIL 26, 1910
fathers, while among the higher classes 1 friend who is making sacrifices at home
of society and among those more able,; that the boy or girl may be kept in school
BIBLE STUDY.
One of the hopeful tendencies of
times is that toward compulsory Bible
study in the schools. No man can really
be learned and cultured without a know
ledge of this buok, and college men most
especially should remember this. Not
only should the Bible be studied for its
spiritual truths and moral precepts, but it
. should be studied for its literature. We
read the love poems and nature poems
of Wordsworth with pleasure; why not
the lyrics of the Psalmist ■> It is no harm
to read the Bible for mere pleasure and
pastime. If we are rather gloomy why
children are in abundance-—and these' put themselves to extra trouble in order j His writings savor strongly of antiquity
U U , ,;ll k to be of most benefit to the student, and reveal a love ot the past. INot orily
^ ^ ® I And how little gratitude does the student [ by expressions and entire essays does he
endeavor to carry us back into times long
past, and to present to us their beauties
and superiorities over the present. There
is sometimes present in his writings an
oddity or grotesqueness of expression
which lends to them a certain distinction
and charm. His writings are also char
acterized by a sprighthness which en
livens and fascinates.
The essays of Lamb are noted for
their force, along with the other
qualities before mentioned. He secures
this force by certain mechanical means
such as the use of the short sentence, the
parenthesis, the dash, the frequent use of
apposites, and his superb phrasal power.
He also uses many long and compound
words in his writings.
He displays a profound knowledge of
literature; references to Shakspeare.
there are few, if any children. The so
cially low home is always prolific in off-
! spring. The parents have no thought
the ; for their children, without it be a thought
of gain through their labour. And in
the socially high homes there is an exact
ly opposite condition. Hence society
must breed from the bottom up.
THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS.
The poet says a man may " in his
mind make a hell of Heaven or a Hea
ven of hell" and the psychologists affirm
the statement, for they tell us that our
thoughts have a direct influence upon the
body. They say that different thoughts
But rather they show ingratitude by
idleness and often by mischief andmiscon-
duct that cast reflections on relatives and
parents. And they who would damage
college property or turn the stage into a
vehicle exhibit and the halls into calf
stalls, have not the proper gratitude for
those who made the college possible nor
for those who send them there. Parents
who have done the best possible for their
children, to make them men and women,
are often crushed in mind and heart at
the waywardness of son or daughter, and
all for the lack of gratitude.
The world is in need cf such gratitude
as David had for Jonathan when he
said, " Is there yet any that is left of the
, , I act differently upon the several members
not read the poem of the dejected Job, ;
rather than Gray’s Elegy ? We might
find in Absalom a character as ambitious
and ungrateful as the wicked daughters
of King Lear, and in Ruth a woman as
sweet and noble as Cordelia. Solomon
was as wise and foolish a man as the
poet Shelly, Keats, or Byron. In Saul
us that all un-1
pleasant or vulgar or unhappy thoughts j
act disastrously on our physical mecha
nism. So we have another care, we
cannot even let evil or unhappy thoughts,
fly over our heads, much less let them
build in our hair. So, too, it becomes a
that I may show him Milton, Beunyan, and the Bible being
especially numerous. He is noted for
his keen, common sense, and his philoso
phy is of a sound and satisfying type.
J. W. Barney.
house of Saul,
kindness."
Oh! gratitude thou art a jewel.
J. L. j
Gratitude.
J . sin and a harm against ourselves to think
we have a man made sick by power and j
unscrupulous by jealousy—a man who j
visited witches and believed in sorcery— !
withal, a man of Mcbeth’s character and j
one as interesting as Shakespeare’s great ' Gratitude is true appreciation for favor
, 1 . I-,. 1 received, and once it is in the heart it
creation. Joshua was as great a military ; concealed. Most of us like
genius as Napoleon, and the wandering Many of us lack it. How often do
prophet, Elisha, was as great a preacher men who are highly favored by a friend
as the German Luther. And in the New go their way forgetting the favor? Of-
Testament, what orator can we name that ten the favor has cost the bestower self-
. D ^ L sacrifice, time, money and pleasure, but
will surpass the impetuous Peter-who
man more lovable than John and what Jyjy fails even to give thanks,
more learned than Paul of Tarsus ? The | Lend some people money when they
language is clear and easy, simple, but are in a strait, and when they have the
how suggastive. There is no poet to ™/o'eturii they forget the kindness.
, , , , . , . I Some folks will buy things to-day on a
compare with this poet of poets and necessary to sustain life.
there is no literature so poetic. Read 'Pomorrow they are spending cash fool-
the New Testament, if not for moral aid ishly with another merchant. Some are
then for it’s diction, for Christ was a friends to their neighbor so long as their
divine poet, who spoke and speaks in the neighbor is able to do them a kindness,
, r f L L » but let hard luck betall him and they are
sublimest figures or the human tongue. enemies
He is a Shelley, a Keats, a Bjjfon, a gj,, Walter Scott is said to have had
Wordsworth, a Tennyson, without their few equals as a big hearted man. When
imperfections—and He is a Shakespeare he was almost crushed by heavy debt.
Charles Lamb as an Essayist.
The qualities which go to make up
the successful author are, like human
nature, hrom which they originate, elusive
and hard to define. In Lamb however
there are several qualities which are
easily recognized and defined.
First among the peculiar charms or
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