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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1834, 7 May 1888, Page 3

Boston girl No. 1 : "Is the earth maaouline or feminine?" Boston girl No. 2: "Why, the earth is femioin*, of course I Tbe Latin word terra, signifying earth, is feminine, The poeta when they personify it always allude to it' as feminine." Boston girl No. 1 : "But, my dear, Coleridge doea not. Ool'eridge treats it as masculine." Boston girl No. 2: " Preposterous I What authority have you for such a statement ? " Boston girl No. 1 : " Why 1 , my dear, m the poem Kubla Khan you remember the following lines ocour — ' And from this obasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, Asif the earth m thick; fast pants were breathing* etc Now I want to know if Coleridge doesn't just as plain as can be represent the earth aa dressed m male attire?! 1 Boston girl No. 2: "He most certainly does. You have made a'great discovery. Let ua lay the matter before the Browning Club." " ' An exchange aaya :— «' The Arohbishop of York has issued a prayer asking God 'to remove thia great trial which thou hast sent upon us.'— i.e., the small-pox epidemic On this Pr Dallinger of Sheffield, who isjao eminent man ofisoience as well as a divine, sayg: — "I will yield to no man in 1 reverenoe for true prayer but for once I will tell you without flinching that I oannot, and will not pray for the removal of the smallpox scourge. It would be a mookery of God. Let , us do our best and then m baffled agony ory to God for help. But here wo have not helped ourselves, and how dare we ask the Almighty to help us? Let us do our duty, aot up to our knowledge, and aa surely as the small-pox curse came among us by physios! laws broken, so it will depart from us if we see to it that the physical lawa were obeyed.' To whioh Jwe might add the observance of the good old proverb as to oleanliness being next to godliv pass would be worth a whole host pf prayers ■ tt many oases," ■