Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 16, 1881 Page: 2 of 8
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was repmsented as inefficient, as
unable or unwilling to express my
peeuliar^sound without help, and
so . eloquently did my - popular
brother portray the circumstances
of my case that I began to be
ashamed of myself. I have now
ing, and at the same 1am* violates i uf-
rfhe simplfest rules of grammar
and composition on nearly even
l page of his book, he lias no rightjMqgi
to expect mercy at the hands of ques
CHRISTIAN ME S S E N 6r E R.
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“It hasdt been done so forages!”]
iand^^f(0 not wish the familiar
77Z7 “We have determined that M books taken away.
>? • - shall not work any longer unless c01pj not understand prinfc-
===^y°u wilt agf*e that each ofw* ^ ^le yoildemaJ1d; Be-
■■ dongle and thal‘ tV many English
„^ „ uniform* Whenever we appear,
aao~a little bov who men must know exactly what we
wnnnnV Vfmt bv a ffood mean* and in order to accomplish
named that it has been decided in our
W ride of Fifth street of St. “brotherhood’that but one of us
Louis missed his spelling-lesson. *kall be called upon ,6^>ITS
He had had the experience «»y single sound, and that Aa
before. He stood before Mrs. sound
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;cally
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.~at he1^___ _ c
Ipeedie&E “And
wdrda-a^iiSwrrred from ancient
languages and w© must spell them
in suclh. i way as to show where
they cane from. Now*, if no one
of you ii to do double duty, it is
: plain thit I must go outside of the
brotherlood and get seventeen
h©W typ« to represent the sounds
that are nbw without letters.”
Here ihere arose a mighty din,
in Which the’dreamer was able to
recogrihaf bnly the words, “No
outside#! No outsiders!” Then
the iettei‘6 took the stand:
“In hikin l listened with ap-
proval to the words of .pur friend
E, but,I could not help-.,being
«5b.S^JS«I““ Om." I.«ow.i but I will
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tIb.—“O-n-a-d-a-r, Wonder.” j than any other type in the ff ^"edlet.his personalities.
Si ^noThere • °* *“ reoms.ntecl as inefficient,
my own popularity. I represent
L. B.—“D-w-o, Do.” the most popular sound. Whrfi'l
Mrs S.—“Another ' mist* object to is that you use me when
T fairli ” you do not need me. You put me
ever. ! I am always in love, and risen aoove,xn« <mu
—v i ii attached to mv foe even proud that so many of m\
I L. B.—“C-a-n-g-h, calf. .T^tL not needed in rather fellows ire willing to give me as-
Mrs. 8.—“Wrong again! Once though I am not needed in ratner ^ ^ j ^ wa.
^^.gli. Enough” Pwhileyouuse me thus, you tM as! think of the burdens we
k q make me help my brothers express shall hare to assume if our de-
Mre. S.—Stuff. Lome of their sounds. You newer mands are met by the compositors.
L. B.— *S-t-o-ti-g-b, stun. s ,. Ka1t»I In that case I can have no more
Mrs. S.-“You may go to your write ywt wi&out making me lwrip ^ when I think of the
paseedTaway andthe iittiej yoi^ JSaWen "from O, depth
S-STa^k5S aT- Lhd° ££S k ■ -«»1
the first speller, when h© wanted] him up to duty t , , . p, flTnt,A +Q
^ ntniA xrArdH iust put hifr hand! O Pitied a little ashamed of listen to th^n,C arose to
to make^waafjua'* xn» - u 0T'fitspeak. He saw a chance to shift
^SS^^3^^g^o»to“Lwyou much aU his burdens on to Sand K:
hefto^LrSe fib* felt that more of your inconsistency, and I ““Mr. Compositor-Gentlemen
' he knew about it, until at last his should if I did not notice that my Types, Sink or swim, live or die,
bead bleau towhrl and one da, brethren think that 1 am becom- survive or perish I give my hand
hefeiHnto* adizzy sleep in which ing “ offensively personal. With- and my heart to this proposition
he at first tho^t that all the let- out further parley I repeat our It is true indeed thati in the be-
ters of the alp^bet, printed up demand for equal and exact jua- gpming we armed not at »o broad
square hiteof cardboard wCtice. We cease work until this is ahieasure; bot^e.. fruity
each other about in his accorded.” that shape, out ends. let™
, After the deafening cheers with spell cup with a K and sceptre
Tdegrera tlwimfusion ceased, which this speech was received by without toy C. Let sugar be wnt-
’ and a orfm sleep, followed. Then the strikers had subsided, the ten shoul-gue-yrrh, takmg the
he found himself in a wonderful foreman of the composing room sound of«»« from should, of j
land where the typee had escaped mounted a chair and spoke: from rotjuc, an e as soun
from the printer’s case and wereto “I Jiave listened with admiring from myrrh.
be seen hurrying thrdugh the I interest to the speech that has Here the speech of C came to a
streetsin a very lively way, forljustbeen delivered. You could I sudden conclusion; f or.the compos-
they aU had legs and arms, and not have chosen a more efficient! itors cried out with one voice that,
some of them wore hats or carried j type to give voice to your alledged ratlier than follow such a plan,
5 » wwrvno-R His words were well they would adopt any fair com-
promise that the types wished to
propose. “Anything,” they said,
“but an effort to follow the prece-
dents of modern spelling.” The
types saw, too, that if they would
be just to each other they must
come as near as possible to having
but one type for a sound, and one
sound, for a tyf)e.
t The noise that was made by
the strikers and the compositors
in discussing liow this should be
accomplished wakened the dream-
er from his "sleep, and he found
that during his nap the postman
had brought to liis door a package
containing papers in which the
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DITZLER Ol&lBAfTISjr.
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We sekno-dedge the receipt o!
a copy of ML Diizler’e book oi
the “mode” of baptism.IMt issuer -----. ^
from the publishingr• under etye
P. Morton & Co., LouisffflUT » nouse whers*^^^
and so far as its mechanical paper.” Under whatJ
make-up is concerned, it sustains iag*tham*fe longer il......
the reputation of its publishers, speeches can be made”
It i&fiafe to say that there is should be much. “ThfiSi tie
no man on .the American conti- tice of the early oentunes
nent to-day who makW. greater church was altogether bv i
pretentions to learning andL»chek sion.” When a. man says
arsbip than the author of hr>ti«rn was
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book does; and in- view, 'of tnese
baptism was- by immersion, we
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loud and lofty claims that
conspicuous on almo» every page
of the volume before us, we im-
pose to point out a few of its lit-
erary demerits. This wo would
not do did not the pedantry of
the author of this book ' trans-
cend the limits of all decency.
When one comes before the. liter-
ary .world with pretentions /toy
learning that are simply disgust-
know . what he means; but when ,
Ike says that- to practice was by-
immersion, what does he mean?
|“If the origin and design of bap-
;tasm/Aoa ever been exjdamed.’^
A singular verb with two subjects!
I la3?tb intelligent person is si0i^*
to rest a good cause on mere allu-
sions, much less- upon one or two
highly-wrought metaphors that al-r«
hide to baptism, whether it be by
that of the Spirit or oi water.'*
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A £eW sentences from the book this question!” “The sbM|
will serve to show what Mr. Dite- of ” T?*'".,"-
ler thinks of himself as an aa-lHarperil-In nocase of baptism
thor “The unscientific method under the apostolic converts do w»
always followed on this subject by read of into or out oft the grater,
both side, my well account for I Baptism Wer the |
the unsettled state of the controlverig- , , ■
versy.” No one ever treated the m tiie sprp^ of those w-~-~
suhject of baptism scientifically regions for the numbers
till Mr. Ditzler came upon tbe noW .^°”m^g.pTUl,L^> ^
stage of action! “It will be seen We were under the .mpressiou
by comparison that as yetthefleld tirat the
had not been touched, compara- b^>*ism «md not for ““all ordinary
ativelv by the one side-excessive- purposes!” .-‘“The great MgoV
It misused by tbe other.” Thatlvrords in M Earo^“d^“>
is, when the efforts of my prede- tongues, so far as known,
Lessors are compared with ^ changing A« ehouU
forts, it will be seen that they did,fbe is,^^agree Vnth body!^ This
not touch the field of “the ancientUas *b »* primary force. What
Iversion!!” “If the origin and de- was its sccomf primary force .
(sign of baptism has ever been In view ofrthe foregoing eleg^
explained, its real propriety pre- specimens of English composition
isented^^^iiMiiiiUU^Jf1^ rAA^6r can auoreciate the nr?t
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lt*~ J-Uis IS une ut • ----.oeiifcaaiw mu..
sons for writing a book on Bap- ft, Dr.' McCown. “For several
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sunshades.
A somewhat general consulta-
tion resulted in the appointment
of a committee composed of E, I
and U to confer with the composi-
tors. E, being the most impor-
il|ki, was spokesman, and opened
the conference with these words:
“Masters, I am asked to speak
for my fellow-types, and to state
to you the grievances tinder which
we are suffering. We put on pa-
per the speech of the people, for
the words in print are representa-
tions of the sounds their voices
utter. Ours is ill head-work, and
requires hard-headed common
sense. We must stand up to our
work like men, [sensation] the true
men—each in hid lot. Each one
of us bears an individual charac-
ter, and represents, or ought to
represent, a particular sound.
And yet you, our arbitrary mas-
ters, try to force some of us to do
double duty-aye, often threefold
dr fourfold duty. Not only must
I aniO stamp the impress of their
dwn eharacters tlpon the words,
tmt in some of .your dirty work
you slake both of them take up
wrongs. His words were well
chosen, and were uttered with a
frankness and earnestness that
are adapted to carry conviction to
the unprejudiced hearer. And
yet there is much to be said on
the other side. There are not
enough of you to represent the
English sounds. Af best you
number but twenty-six, and when
you consider that K is only C in a
bad temper, that X is the same as
Ks, and that Q is Kw, yon will see
that there are only twenty-three of
vou to represent at least forty
sounds.”
Here there arose a might ory
that K, Q and X should be thrust
out of the brotherhood, and they
escaped beneath a fence, and were
not^heard of more.
“Now.” continued the foreman,
“you are worse off than before. English spelling
You are left seventeen hands
short, and have lost the help of
three interlopers who used to as-
sist you. But I am not yet
through with my argument. Peo-
ple who read have become accus-
tomed to seeing words printed ns
we have done for ages, [cries of
rery subject of his di^eam was dis-
cussed. He found that they an-
nounced the existence of a “socie-
ty” that was laboring to reform
English spelling. Ho said to
himself. “Would that such a re-
form had been begun in my day!
then I should hot have been so
often ‘kept in’ for missing my
spelling-lesson. I am sure that
every boy and girl will will want
to join this good society.”-—Wide
Aicake.
sons lor wiiting ci ^ —a f
tism. No one had ever been able [years after attediog
to exhibit its origin and design! the honor of pursuing the
“The parties favoring affusion la-1 under your direction.”Mr.
bored under a great disadvantage pursue the study of the la_c
by allowing both sides to adhere I pe pursued the languages,
to a course of argumentation des- j quite evident, however, that
titut© of, and antagonistic to, all er overtook but one of
sound and recognized rules and English—and lie so
laws of philology. Word-build- gjed that, all the rest J|
ing, root-derivation, and all laws get away from him. This---
bv which scholars arrive at a cor- who lecturs Doctors Stuart,
rect knowledge of the meaning of j Summers, Carson, and pretty muc^
words were ignored, and a wholly every body els«v»bout their unsca-
uncientific method persued.” No entific methods in “word-building,
one knew how to >treat this sub- rootto^tifm- >
ject form the " stand-point of Mr. Ditzler makes greater pre-
“word-building, root-derivation,” tentioto accuracy in
■ till a merciful Providence blessed Ij^b knowledge and statement of
the Immajf race with the advent of J historical and geographical facts,.
Jacob Ditzler! This'is enough than to acquaintance with Ian-
ito show that the author of the gnages. We have space to men-
book before us stands very high tion but one or two of ■ his WMim.-
I in the estimation of Mr. Ditzier. J ders’ in this department Speak- ^
| Now let the reader prepare for] jng G{ the river Jordan be says:
things “rich, rare and racy.” Re- j “The length of the Jordan directly
ferring to a quotation made by to the Dead sea is wxty miles. By
Dr. Summers, from Snidas, Mr. windings it is two hundred
D. says: “Snidas does not defifcelmiles. Its fall is over three
the word, and this is simply re- thousand feet.” He here pre^pnds
peating the blunders of former to give the distances tom tho
\compilatiom.” Compilations of the Jordan to its mouth,
should be compilers, unless Dr. Loth by a direct line and by the
Summers is a compilation! “To windings of the river. Now,the
do this we have /**/?£ the quotations! distances given by Mr. Ditzler are
that are in the languages in foot-(the distances, not from the source ,
notes,” etc. Kept should be of torivertoitsmouth, ashesays, W
placed. “As the phonogrupher |but/rt>»» the ma <tf Tiberim to the .Jj
failed utterly to get my speeches,
speaking ^o rapidly, I had to
write them out from my notes.”
There are two blunders here. 1.
Utterly shouid stand between
phonographer and * failed. 2.
“Speaking so rapidly” grammati-
’ Sea! In his Text-Book and
Atlast, Mr. Coleman sayB: “From
ths sea oi Triberum to t'-
mo, in a direct *_,<
sixty miles. But in its eotUHKv
the Jordan so infolds and J
its channel by frequent v
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Burnett, Thomas R. Christian Messenger. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 16, 1881, newspaper, March 16, 1881; Bonham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth904586/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bonham Public Library.