Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goes on: I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment. . . . Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? Angrily, readers asked themselves: Do Uldine's declarations of literate faith in Biblical commandments let her forget the Magna Charta and the Rights of Man as expressed in the U. S. Constitution...
Solomon, when he was a youngster, he remembers, sowed his wild oats. What, though, does he say when he grows old? He says: There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink. . . . This time the question was: Could anything more arrantly pagan be suggested to sincere Christians...
...kindest critics could only say that the girl Uldine was too young to catch the meaning of such lilting verses. To the Preacher Progress is futile, Effort ridiculous, Work leading but to the grave. Well might Utley-urged readers doubt whether so spirited a young lady would knowingly propagate this doctrine of Quietism, which all good U. S. citizens despise as encouraging to slothfulness and indolence; which is down right laziness and against the principles of business...
From the last verse of ECCLESIASTES to the first of the SONG OF SOLOMON is but an eye-skip across the page. Stern Puritans used to say that Solomon's SONG OF SONGS is a book which Christians had better whistle than recite...
...Doubt surrounds the authorship of the book ECCLESIASTES. Some say King Solomon wrote it. Others attribute it to a Hebrew sage named Koholeth, whose name, coincidentally, means "wisdom." Koholeth at first puts his words into the mouth of Solomon, but later drops this literary device. The Greek word "Ecclesiastes" means "Preacher...