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CALLINGS A SPADE A SPADE. 341
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and the unequal growths of A . or B . ; and they likewise _^ avoided mention of crossroads and stakesand referred to the inherent
any , ri rig ht ht of into every the heart man of over all his such own inions fleshly tearin coil . Now them , sweep assunder ing ¦ opg
like g cobwebsand read out in full assembly , every Sunday in every parish church , to menwomenand children ( who learn them long
before they can , understand , the , words ) , come the plain-speaking Commandments of Almighty God : —
" Thou shalt do no murder , " Thou shalt not commit adultery
and _" in Thou the shalt Catholic not covet Church th , y thoug neighb h , , our the ' s readin wife , g " of etc . the ,
Commandments does not constitute part of the ordinary service , they are imworshi pressed and by imprinted incessant pastoral on the mind teaching of every with child the awful and penalties of every
announced pper , in the Gospels held up to the , individual who does not keep this law . All bodies of Christian Dissenters likewise , teach
their children to repeat and understand with sufficient thoroughness the same law delivered on Sinai ; and even those who do not
believe in the Divine authority of the Pentateuch have had the Ten Commandments well ground into their memory before they
began to be troubled with philosophic doubts , and usually take care that their children undergo the same process . Thus there is
is one perm department anently a of spade human ; and culture the words , the reli both _giotis of , in the which original a spade and
translated versions being preserved from alteration by the reverence of mankind , they remain bare in their statements , wholesome in
well their as app for lic those ation , especiall and a perpetual y authorised standard to conduct for the Divine moral worshi writer p , . as in
When , therefore , any circumstance of life has to be judged reference to one of the Commandments , the laws of conventional taste are overborne by considerations of a higher nature , and the
infraction of the Law can only be clearly denned by an appeal to the original wording of the Statute , or by such a presentation been in of
fringed defeats the facts . its as Less end may clearness by make leaving it is clear an unworth impression that y the of Law the on subject the has mind reall , and y that either the
lapse and was not if we so are very to bad conclude after all that , or the lowers sin was the reall standard committed of right . y
wrong when Verbal it insufficiency relates to crime may as sometimes when a woman touch who upon had absurdit scratched y , even her
, said sleep that ing husband she " onl with regretted a rasor , that is noted she in had a police not cut report his throat as having . "
Our remarks are y made in reference to two books recently pubthe interestand in sonie
instances lished , and considerable which have animadversi excited on deepest —Mrs . Norton , ' s novel of
" Lost and Saved / ' and Mrs . Kemble ' s " Journal of a Residence
Callings A Spade A Spade. 341
_CALLINGS A SPADE A SPADE . 341
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/53/
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