Pacific Christian messenger., May 21, 1880, Page 5, Image 5

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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MAY 21? 1880
The Bell’s Message.
Dee pot or Day-pot.
“D ear C ompanion ,—There ia trouble
in our house. My aistar, who has just
come home from boarding-school, says we
The quiet of a Sunday morning was bro­ must pronounce depot, aaypo. I tried it
ken by the tones of a ohurch bell. Over on the boys-and they all laughed at me.
What am I to do ? If I say deepo at home
the town floated its full, rich music, and my sister makes a fins ; and if I say daypo
then came back again in faint echoes. The l at'achool, I am laughed at as *stuck up.x
bell seemed charged with a message to the i and putting on airs. Anyhow, which :s
C hicago .”
people, which it was telling with all its ( right, dee or day ?
This is not an easy question to answer,
might, and the message ran thus :
“ Come—come. Come—come. Come i simple aS it seems. The word depot is
French, though the French, never use it in
—
—come.”
But although well understood, it was not . the sense of a railroad station. They or­
heeded by many, and this is what the peo­ dinarily mean by it, the beadquarters of a
ple said who did not heed it, and what ; regiment of soldiers. They pronounce it,
as the sister of our correspondent says it
conscience said to them :
ought to be pronounced, daypo.
Bell. “ Come.”
It is—as she would doubtless say—the
People. “ We do not feel well to day.”
Conscience. 11 Isn’t it strange there are , rule to pronounce French words in the
so many sick people on Sundays ? Many French way ; but to this rule there are
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who are well enough on Saturday night exceptions. The French pronounce Paris,
are unable to go out Sunday, and those Par-ee and Calais, Cal-oy. But when a
who are sick on Sunday recover when traveller, on returning from Europe, talks
Monday morning comes. It might seem about the good times he had at Par-e« and
as if Borne weekly epidemic visited the what a rough passage he had in crossing
town with a full supply of headaches, colds, from Dover to Cal-oy, his affectionate re­
lations smile aloud, and he soon abandons
fevers, and other disorders.”
that mode of throwing Europe in their
Bell “ Come—come.”
*-
People ** The weather is too unpleasant faces.
But why do we not pronounce the name
today.”
Conscience. ** Yes, the weather on Sun­ of the capital of France as the French
days is always wrong—too hot, too cold, pronounce it? The answer is this : Be­
too wet. too cloudy, or too windy. Sun­ cause the word Paris became familiar to
day heats are so exhaustive, Sunday rains our ancestors through their eyes and not
are so penetrating, Sunday colds so pierc­ their ears. They simply did not know
ing that no one but the minister and the how the French pronounced it ; and if
they had known.it, it is doubtful if they
should go out to church !”
would have conceded to them the right
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Bell. '* Ccme—come.” ’
to fix the pronunciation of the word.
People. '* We have company.”
“ What do you think of the French ?”
Conscience. ** Isn’t there something
said about the stranger within thy gates asked one of Nelson’s sailors of another,
.who had been a prisoner of war among
keeping the Sabbath holy ?”
them.
Ben, ■•‘Come—come.
** They are a pack of fools,” war the
People. ** Our garments are not good
reply ; '* they call a horse a chopper, and
enough."
Conscience. ** There are a great many a cabbage a shoe.”|.
Two centuries ago, most English people
directiona in the Bible about how we
had
some such feeling as this, and scarcely
should come before our Lord, but the
style and the quality of clothes are not any of tlem, except the nobility and oour-
mentioned. The church isn’t a millinery tiers, knew how to pronounce a French
establishment or a show-room. In old word.; Hence, words borrowed* from the
times the rich and poor met together, for French in the olden time are commonly
pronounced in the English manner to this
the Lord is the Maker of them all.”
day ; and custom - compels us all to say
Bell. "Come—dome.”
People. “ We are better than some who Paris and Calias as though they were En­
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go to chtirclr.”
■________ glish names.
But depot came in later, when large
■ ■ rj——Conscience. •' Yon may be much bet-
ter than some, but are you satisfied with numbers of English and Americans knew
that? Will it do to tell the Lord so? something of French ; and, accordingly,
There is something in the parable of the we got the word half-right No ona^has
Pharisee and publican bearing upon this ever said de-pott. From the first, we pro-
___ ___ point?’______ - .
------------- ’-------------- - nounoed the-first syllable in the English
manner, and the second in the French. Of
Bell. “Come—come.”
People. “We haven't any seat in the late years, there has been an attempt on
the part of polite people to get the word
■church.”
Conscience. "Yes, there are always pronounced French-fashion throughout.
At first, we confess, we did not relish
seats there for all who come. There need
the
change. Custom had so long sanct­
be no fear of wearing out your welcome,
for you are urged to come «very Sunday.” ioned the mixed pronunciation that it
And so the church bell keptsringiag but seemed hardly worth while to rectify it.
its message, “ Come—come,* and some Nevertheless, the new mode is gaining
heeded the message, came, thanked God ground, and in these matters, the custom
for the privilege of coming, and resolved of polite people is almost snre to prevail at
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to come always. Others still refused, and last.
** Chicago ” is advised to keep the peace
conscience went to sleep, murmuring ere
it slept: ** Wbat shall it piofit a man if he in his family by saying daypo whenever his
shall gain the whole world and lose his sister is at home from school ; and, at the
same time, 'to preserve his credit among
own soul T'—Charles Wesley.
his schoolfellows by using some other
word. Meanwhile, let him observe the
A Deaf and Dumb Witness.
signs of the times; let canvass public
Truth will utter itself somehow against opinion. Day po may blow over, and the
concealed guilt. In one of the Washing­ old democratic de-pot hold its ground.
ton City courts was seen recently a Like a politician, he can remain on the
strangely dramatic exhibition of it The fence, until he finds out just how the boom
Correspondent of the Boston Jenrnal says : is going, and then govern his tongue ac­
Three colored men are being tried here cordingly. _ ______ ■ . ._______ '_____ _ _
Our impression is that he will side at
for an unproved murder, and it bad not
been ascertained which of them obtained last with hia sister. We hope, however,
the watch and ring of the victim until the that he will not go so far as some young
testimony was taken of a deaf and dumb ladies do, and write the word .with the
colored woman, who can neither read nor French accents, depot. We must draw the
line somewhere.— Youth’s Companion.
write nor use the sign alphabet.
When sue was made to understand that
Couldn’t Beifève It.
information about one of the prisoners was
wsnted, she immediately held out her loft
Soma " civilized ” people refute to be'
forefinger and drew a line around it; this
lieve anything they cannot understand.
was said to indioate a ring.
She then put a knuckle over the fore­ But the Zulu savages seem to be eminent
finger ; this was said to indicate a seal. in that kind of sovereign incredulity.
An English officer in Zulnland told Dr.
Going to a white lamp-ehide at some dis­
Russell
how the mitsionary at King Lo-
tance, she put her band on it, this being
bengula';
town fared with his congrega­
supposed to indicate that the seal was
tion.
They
crowded the ohurch at the
white.
Then a gold watch was shown, but she time of servioe, and listened, with their
shook her bead violently. A silver quarter pipes in their months, to the clergyman
wap placed upon it, and she bowed her till he read some passage which they did
head ; this was said to indicate thatit was not accept, and then they are oalled out in
Matabele,—
* silver watch. Other pantomimic gestures
“ Holme I That is a lie. We do not be­
as to height, going out and coming in a
lieve it.”
door, eta., were used to indicate that the
Once the missionary went to King Lo-
.
prisoner had an interview with her.
bengula
and aaid ho deeired to leave to
She indicated the time by pointing to
visit one of tho Southern towns, as he was
the figure 12 on the clock, and then put
her foot on a ray of sunlight which fame in want cf new teeth. Tho king said,
into the room and looked up, signifying
You have told me so many falsehoods,
that it was noon.
and I have borne with yon np to this.
Btit now you exhaust my good natnre.
—The Southern Baptist Convention
How dare yon at your time of life pretend
representing nearly two-thjrds of the you want teeth ? Go away with you I”
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