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The British National Association of Spiritualists, which has honoured me by placing my name on its Council, thus states its principles, under the mottoes: "He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him." Proverbs xviii. 13. "In Scripture we are perpetually reminded that the Laws of the Spiritual World are, in the highest sense, Laws of Nature." Argyll.
And the little German girl's plate of cherries, which she so generously urged upon a stranger when food of any kind was so scarce, is a beautiful illustration of the first verse of the eleventh chapter of Proverbs: 'Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days."
Havamal is a collection of proverbs, but contains two interpolations from mythical poems; Alvissmal, which, in the form of a dialogue between Thor and a dwarf Alviss, gives a list of synonyms, is a kind of mythologico-poetical glossary.
I mean Solomon, whose prudence and wisdom are commended in Scripture rather than his piety and gift of prophecy. He, in his proverbs, calls the human intellect the well-spring of true life, and declares that misfortune is made up of folly. All this absolutely agrees with what was set out in our fourth point concerning natural law.
These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction. The bringing all these scattered counsels thus into a focus enabled them to make a greater impression.
"There is that maketh himself rich," he read again, "Yet hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches." "Ah," he sighed, "to possess such riches, I would gladly make myself poor!" But there was one text in the book of Proverbs which "Cobbler" Horn could never read without a smile. "The poor," it ran "is hated even of his own neighbour; but the rich hath many friends."
The Old Testament. 4. Hebrew Education. 5. Fundamental Idea of Hebrew Literature. 6. Hebrew Poetry. 7. Lyric Poetry; Songs; the Psalms; the Prophets. 8. Pastoral Poetry and Didactic Poetry; the Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. 9. Hebrew Philosophy. 12. Manuscripts and Translations. 14. Rabbinical Literature. 15. The New Revision of the Bible, and the New Biblical Manuscript.
To her, her son Telemachus says: "Your widowed hours apart, with female toil, And various labours of the loom, beguile, There rule, from palace cares remote and free, That care to man belongs, and most to me." The wifely type of the Hebrews is set forth in Proverbs xxxi, 10-31. Her virtues consisted in rising while it was yet night, and not eating the bread of idleness.
"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life," says Proverbs. How wonderful! how inspiring! The fruit borne by a Christian is a savor of life to many. If you live a true Christian life all the way through, God will use the fruit you bear to bring another soul to life. Your Christian life will not be lived in vain.
'There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. PROVERBS xiii. 7. Two singularly-contrasted characters are set in opposition here. One, that of a man who lives like a millionaire and is a pauper; another, that of a man who lives like a pauper and is rich.
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