Complaint
is frequently made that in church service the hymns are sung too slowly, that the tune is made to drag heavily along, taxing breath capacity and offending the sense of rhythm.
In
his second epistle to the Corinthians, Paul, after exhorting the brethren to bountiful and cheerful almsgiving, closes with the words, "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
The
doing of good ought certainly to have results beneficent to the doer, even as the labor of the sower makes more certain to him a share in the harvest.
When the highly educated and cultured young Pliny, a pagan Roman, served as governor of the province of Bithynia, in the early part of the second century of our era, he found spreading there what he termed a crude "superstition," a sect whose followers, although not guilty of any flagrant violation of law, were accounted possessed of a strange and dangerous religious "fanaticism.
