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TH E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
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DoYouMake theseMistakes inENGLISH?
that shall he also shall reap. No man can sneer at God. All his sneers will at last fall back upon his own head. 2. “He that soweth to his flesh . . . he that soweth to the Spirit” (v. 8). This is not, as some have supposed, a description of two kinds of Christians. It is a description of two kinds of peo ple in general, the one lost, the other saved. It is true that there aïe different kinds of Christians; some are better than others. But no true Christian makes it his hfibit as a course of life to sow to his own flesh (the present Greek tenses indicate this). It is dan gerous error to teach that one truly bom of God can live thus. 3. “ God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). George G. Findlay, in his great work on the First Epistle of John entitled Fellow ship in the Life Eternal, has commented so helpfully bn this passage that I can do nothing better than to quote at length. “Let us put ourselves in the position of those who heard Christ’s message from John’s lips, the converted idolators of the Asian cities. His read ers, most of them, were reared in heath enism. They had been taught in their youth to worship Zeus and Hermes (Acts 14:12), Artemis of the Ephesians (Acts 19:34), Bacchus of the Philadel phians, Aphrodite of the Smymaeans, and we know not how many besides—• gods stained, in the belief of their wor shipers, with foul human vices . . . They had gods that could cheat and lie, gods licentious and unchaste, gods spiteful and malignant towards men, quarrel some and abusive towards each other. They had been accustomed to think of the Godhead as a mixed nature, like their own, only, on a larger scale—good [ Continued on Page 384] English-the Basic Working Tool B y S herwin C ody
Sherwin Cody’s remarkable invention has enabled more than 100,000 people to correct their mistakes in English. Only 15 minutes a day required to im prove your speech and writing. M ANY persons say, “Did you hear
from h im today?” They s h o u l d say, “Have y o u h e a r d from h i m today ? ”, ^ome spell “calendar” “calender” or “calen der.” Still others say “between you and I” - instead of “between _ _
___ you and me.” It is as- sherw in c o n r tonishing' how often “who” is used for "whom,’” and how frequently the sim plest words are mispronounced. Few know whether to spell certain words with one or two “c’s” or “m’s” or "r’s,” or with “ie” or “ei.” Most persons use only common words—colorless, flat, or dinary. Their speech and their letter* are lifeless, monotonous, humdrum. Every time they talk or write they show themselves lacking in the essential points of English. Wonderiul New Invention For many years Mr. Cody studied the problem of creating instinctive habits of using good Eng lish. After countless experiments he finally in vented a .simple method by which you can ac quire a better command of the English language i’n only 15 minutes a day. Now you can stop mak ing the mistakes which have been hurting you. Mr. Cody’s students have secured more improve ment in five weeks than previously had been ob tained by other pupils in fwo years! Learn by Habit— Not by Rules Under old methods rules are memorised* but correct habits are not formed. Finally the rules themselves are forgotten. The new Sherwin Cody method provides for the formation of correct habits by calling to yo.iir attention constantly only the mistakes you yourself make. One of the wonderful- things about Mr. Cody’s course is the speed with w h ic h these habit forming practice drills can be carried .opt. .You can write the answers to ffc£ty questions in 15 minutes and correct your work in 5 minutes more. The drudgery and work of copying have been ended by Mr. Cody! You concentrate al ways on your own mistakes until it becomes “ second nature” to speak arid writs correctly;- FREE—Book on English A new book explaining Mr. Cody's remarkable method is ready. If you are ever embarrassed by mistakes in grammar, spelling, punctuation, pronunciation, or if you can not instantly com mand the. exact words with which to express your ideas, this new free book, “ How' You Can Master Good English~-in 15 Minutes a Day;” will prove a revelation to you. Send the coupon or a letter or postal card for it now. No -agent will call. SHERWIN CODY SCHOOL. OF ENGLISH, 7310 Searle Building, Rochester, N. Y. SHERWIN CODY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH 7310 Searle Building* Rochester, N. Y.*’ Please send me,-, without any obligation on any ; part, your new free book,' *‘How You Can Master Good English—in 15 Minutes a Day/* Name Please print plainly
But there is also the even more impor tant positive side of English as the in strument for playing upon the imagina tions of all those with whom we come in contact. Here words are linked with knowledge of human nature, how peo ple respond to ideas inherent in words, how these words seem to take on the power of motion and fly from one to another and back again as we are told electrons do when they combine- in the pattern of different substances, or fly from one to another in flashes of light. Playing with words as scientists play with electrons in their high-volt gener ators is an art to be desired—an art which unconsciously we can learn from reading books if we once get Interested in the study of English so that we know what to look for, just where to turn our eyes. It is an art that is practiced con stantly by good conversationalists and the writers of good books. In news papers, we find a good average of every day English, but it is only average Eng lish and is not intended as a model- to lift one higher than the average.- Good books present a higher level. No more beautiful language can be found any where else than in the Word of God. No one who is thoroughly familiar with the English Bible can be an uneducated man. Even if We are not able to asso ciate with brilliant conversationalists, we can always find and profit by the reading of good books—provided we know what to look for. If When we read books we do not know what th‘e elements of good English are that we should look for, we may read all our lives without learning very much. Also if we know what we should be looking for, we begin to know whether we are getting that [Continued on Page 407]
We have thoughts, feelings, a personal ity; but how shall we make other people understand and appreciate^ these quali ties? Our principal means of doing this is by use of words—words that will call up pictures, thoughts, feelings in the minds of other people. Obviously, lan g u a g e is a sort of instrument for awak ening imagination in the minds of other people. The kind of English that we want ■is that which we can use as a passport to get into the minds and hearts of those who are all around us, whether they are children whose lives we must mold, or men and women in whose association we can find happiness and advancement. In a democracy like ours, it is not so cial rank that counts, as In countries dominated by aristocracies; nor is it money, which is something any one may have or may not have, but which most of us receive in sufficent amount for our actual n e e d s . It is education that counts—and your education is invariably judged by the language you use. Thére aré plenty of persons in the world who have never been to college, or even to high school, but who are socially accept able because they are well-read and talk like educated persons. Your English is the hallmark of your education, just as your consideration for others is the hall mark of your breeding. Mastery óf the working tool of English is just as im portant for success as mastery of one’s trade or profession, because it is the universal, ever-present medium of com munication between human beings in all classes and conditions. The P ow er o f W ord s T h rou gh Imagination We have spoken of the negative side of English as the hallmark of education.
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