GREAT WORDS DEFINED IN EPIGRAM.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 62, 11 September 1908, Page 7

GREAT WORDS DEFINED IN EPIGRAM.

PREJUDICE. Petrified opinions, v Ignorance on the warpath. ; The condemnation of the unknown. Packing the jury box of mind before trial. Loyalty to a dead judgment. Moral cowardice that cannot look a fact squarely in the eye. The kindergarten stage of bigotry. Betting- that our watch is a better time-keeper than the sun. v . A cataract on the eye of judgment. AMBITION. Faith and 'hope united to effort. v Seeking to equal our superiors and to be superior to our equals. The spur on the heel of purpose. The vitalising ideal that transforms dreams into deeds. The mind's inspiration in the conquest of obstacles. Hunger for power, prestige, position, ©repossession. / The divine unrest of great souls. Progressive discontent with progress. Wings on the body of purpose. The upward- instinct of humanity, ignoble only when tlie ideal is low. REPENTANCE. Regret made manifest in reformation. - Conscience • changing character of conduct. The soul recovering its. self-respect. Reconsecraiion of the will. The heart's transforming sorrow for sin or evil. Taking a moral bath. The cry of an awakened conscience.. Resurrection of self from a dead past. "The soul's antidote for evil.FAITH. Belief in the unproved. - Belief wedded to trust. The instinctive reasoning of the heart. , ."A spiritual X-ray penetrating the unknown. Hope flowering into certainty. The magnetic compass of the heart. ' The bridge "of trust projected from the known to the unknown. The Infinite awakening echoes in the finite. , , . The tie of union of man to man, of unity of maji with God. The reverie ot reason^ ■ - • The heart's loyalty to a belief. HETERODOXY. Individual thought bursting the manacles of a creed. The fallacy of belief of one whose faith differs from ours. TJnconventionality in belief or opinion. Travelling on a sidetrack of ."thought. The birth of a new. orthodoxy. The courage of the radical .^ Having no reverence for authority in matters of belief.Seeking truth by' one's own lantenV. Occupying a lonesome position in matters of opinion. y DIVORCE. The bankruptcy of matrimony. Cutting thejGordian knot of a dual nnliappiness. The legal funeral of a dead love. Giving two people a new lease of life. Law putting asunder what God evidently never meant to be joined together. Dissolution of a marital union without unity. . v Commuting a life sentence of misery in marriage. The emancipation proclamation of marital slavery. The "return privilege" on unsatisfactory matrimonial purchases. — From the New York World Sunday Magazine.