The Bible.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 407, 2 October 1889, Page 6

The Bible.

Tiik best standard of our language.— Bishop Lowth. It is held to be the perfocbion of our English language. — Ilallam, In no book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant. — Fisher Ames. The first classic of our literature, the highest exemplar of purity and beauty of language existing in speech. — (feonje P. MarJi. The English Bible if, after the lapse of 200 years, the standard of the puiity and excellence of the English language. — Adam Clark. What an age of earnest; faith has recoi ded itself in the simple, piegnant, rhythmical English of the collects of the Bible .—Georr/e. — Georr/e Eliot. Our English Bible sustains an intimate relation to English literature as a stimulator of thought as well as a standard of pure English. — Condi t. The constant hearing and reading of the Bible and the liturgy clothes the thought not only in the most natural but in the most beautiful form of language. — S. T. Coltridge. If it were not for the Bible and common prayer-book in the vulgar tongue we could hardly be able to understand anything that was written among us 100 years ago. — Swift, The Koran has not been a more acknowledged classic among the Arabs, nor Luther's Bible among the Germans, than has the English Bible been in English literature. — Dr. William Adams. The Anglo-Saxon, the substratum of our modern English, emphatically monosyllables. * * * The English Bible abounds in grand, sublime and tender passages, couched entirely in words of one syllable. — William Matthews.

The rare and interesting sightof a Chinaman in tears was observed at a t Court recently, uhen Chi Ong wab sentenced to six monbhs' imprisonment for keeping a disorderly hou&e. Before the sentence was .passed Chi pleaded thathe had been thirty-five years in .the colony, and had been "welly honest allee timee." " Tell him," said Judge Docker to the interpreter, "that lam sorry 'lo hear that after being 35 years in' the colony he should be keeping a disorderly house. Tell him also that he is sentenced to six months." Then Chi sat down in a corner of the dock and dropped sundry tears on a | dirty piece of rag. Striped flannels and flannelettes continue much in vogue for tennis and boating'coetumes, which are always very simply made, with a plain draped 3kirt and full band bodice, which are frequently trimmed with a sailor collar. A charming toilette in black and yellow consists of a black lace dress trimmed with gold-coloured faille ribbon, accompanied by a fine black straw hat, lined with goldcoloured tulle and trimmed with yellow sea thistles and black ribbon