Practising What They Preach—See [Evil, Self-destructive].
PRAISE
Ruby T. Weyburn, in The Youth’s Companion, gives this fanciful origin of the music of praise:
The Jews have an old tradition that when the world was done,
And God from His work was resting, He called to Him, one by one,
The shining troops of the angels, and showing the wonder wrought,
The Master asked of His servants what they of the vision thought.
Then one white angel, dreaming o’er the marvel before him spread,
Bent low in humble obeisance, lifted his voice, and said:
“One thing only is lacking—praise from the new-born tongue,