In league with the creative powers,
Shall ’scape Oblivion’s broom so long?”
Riches.—Virtue is the best riches; knowledge the next, and what are usually called riches the worst.
The Right Rendering.
The following incident is recorded by the Bishop of Durham: Archbishop Whately, in his last illness, begged a friend to read to him St. Paul’s description of the Christian’s hope as he looks “for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change” (so the friend read from the Authorised Version) “our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body.”
“No, no,” interrupted the Archbishop, “give his own words! He never called God’s works vile!”
And so we now read in the Revised Version, “Who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of His glory?”
To-morrow.—To-morrow is the fool’s seed-time.