We forbear inserting a list of the sacred names, too often written and uttered “in vain.” The reader is probably {p177} familiar with them from listening to Sabbath services, and reading religious books with which, we hope, his library abounds.
The word “providence” should be put down or up, according to its meaning, as may be seen in the two following sentences:
But behold now another providence of God; a ship came into the harbor. . . . This ship had store of English beads and some knives.—New England’s Memorial.
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.—Milton.
Nouns ordinarily common become proper when written as names of the Supreme Being.
I hope my merciful Judge will bear in mind my heavy punishment on earth.—Pickwick Papers, ch. 44.
Emerson refers “all productions at last to an aboriginal Power.”—Century Maga.
Plato said, that in all nations certain minds dwell on the “fundamental Unity,” and “lose all being in one Being.”—Ib.
In the above examples, the effect of capitals in conveying the idea of personality is strikingly illustrated.