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THE MYSTIC TWELVE.
There are interesting sugges-so to Mr. Johnstone. He is of tions, too, of the twinning of some opinion that in speaking as much of the pairs in the Apostolate as in writing the style is the James and John, Judas and Jesus. man, that through a man's speech can look into his soul and ["The Twelve Apostles" by Rendel Was the term 'Boanerges,' sons of one
Harris W: Heffer and Sons, thunder, an echo of the wide discover what he is, that speech Ltd., Cambridge, 7/6.]
spread belief in the early world in is not a detached gift which a and the man can hold separate from all tha Probably most readers remember the influence of twins
As he says: the time when for a Sunday school worship of the Dioscuri. Or what rest of himself. faak they had to learn off the are we to make of the early tradi. "Speech is a revelation, a form of twin of exproselon, and it can only express names of the twelve Apostles. Iftion that Jesus was a
The very they took any interest in the mat. Judas, and that this gradually got what the speaker Is.. ter they would probably also re softened down into mere ifkenesa fact that speech and not music or or how his some other art is the medium of collect how the list began well but in physical features? tailed off into uncertainty and traditionally elder brothers were a man's expression is an index of nobulousness, both as to character given to another Mary as mother character and the habit of express- the that Jesus might be the Son of aing himself in it affects the gen- and identification, towards close. If any of them had gone to Virgin. Gradually-all his brothers oral character of the speaker and alsters seem to become contributes certain shades to it." the trouble of collating the various and supposed authoritative sources for Brethren of the Lord. According After his introductory chapter Mr. these names he would have found to Jerome they were his cousins. Johnstone analyses the speaking of thought they were Mesars. Balfour, Asquith, Baldwin, that there were difficulties in Helvidius
But such a younger sons of Mary by Joseph. Lloyd George, Ramsay McDonald, harmonising them. difficulty hardly arose in our Sun- According to Epiphanius they were the Chamberlains, the Cecils and
we children of Joseph by a former about a dozen, others. day-school days. Nor did notice then the curious agreement wife. They seem at first to have Interesting chapters are those en- between the number of the been opposed to Christ's teaching titled "The Clydesiders" and "Yes- Apostles, the tribes of Israel, and and only to have come in at the terday and To-day."
end of the Apostolle list. Perhaps mentioned chapter he has the signs of the Zodiac.
beautiful things About Lord they only swelled the number. up
to the requisite requirements-an Rosebery. apostle for each of the twelve
Two very
In the last
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Who and what Mr. Johnstone la
Dr. Rendel Harris in this learn- od and ingenious book gives us all the possible theories and explana- tions in great detail. There can be tribes of Israel. "After He went we do not know; but if we were few men living who have such a "forth into the wilderness, He asked to guess we should say that storehouse
and "completed the number of the he is a very well-read man who of knowledge scholarship at their disposal or "twelve, according to the number has been doing parliamentary re- who can call it into requisition so "of the tribes of the children of porting for at least two decades, ably. This study calls forth all "Israel, and according to the num-moreover that he is a Scot, oighty his ingenuity and resourcefulness "ber of the months." (Book of the per cent. hard-headed, clear-think- Bee). Here again there is diff-ing logical lowlander and twenty of suggestion.
culty for the names of the twelve per cent. poetical Celt: a splendid somewhat uncertain. amalgam, just the combination re- tribes Geneals XLIX. gives them in one quired in a critic of declamation. order. Issacher is 'then No. 6, the An interesting and Intriguing fea
position in the ture of the book is that the au¬ traditional Apostolle list of Judas Iscariot thor's style seems to be affected by the personality he is dissecting. Another noteworthy feature is the subtle use made of a very large and comprehensive vocabulary.
In the New Testament we have the lists of the twelve from the three Synoptic Gospels. All three evidently drew from one common But if we set down these Hats in three columns we will see clearly the difficulty:---
source.
Mark III.
Simon Peter
James
John
Andrew
Philip
Burtholomew
Matthew
Thomas
James of Alphacus
Thaddaeus (Lobbacus)
Simon CananDeus
Judas Iscariot
are
Luke VI.
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Matthew X.
Simon Peter
Andrew
Simon Peter Andrew
James
John
Philip
Bartholomew
Thomas
Matthew
James' of Alphaeus Thaddaeus (Lebborus) Simon Cananeeus Judas Iscariot
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James John
Philip
Bartholomew
Matthew Thomas
James of Alphacus
Simon Zelotes
Judas of James Judas Iscariot
In spite of the rush of modern, parliamentary business and the drabness and prosaic detalls of such things as gas-bills, wages, betting-tax, etc., Mr. Johnston is not
the pessimistic regarding future of British" speaking. After showing that. De Quincey's gloomy prognostications about parliament- ary rhetoric were falsified by the
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in equating Thaddaeus and Judaa (Dr. Rendel Harris, indeed, men-brilliant perorations of Bright, the of James but in three of the names tions the auggestion that the flamelike utterances of Gladstone, themselves there is a difficulty. curious name Iscariot may be derivand the mental opulence and names have thrills. Some" names, Bartholomew, is not easily un-ed from Issacher). Iudas Iscariot golden tongue of Rosebery he says: "Persia for Instance. There is derstood as a name by itself. As-ought perhaps to be put opposite "Great movements breed great "also an aroma about the name of Bar means 'son of there ought to Dan. For Dan is erased from the "speech. It may be that we have "Persia quite, different from the in the "fallen on less spacious days, and "aroma I frequently tried to avoid be a name in front of it. Perhaps list of the twelve tribes Phillip or Matthew has slipped out Book of Revelation-according to "that in all the apheres in which in Persia. The whole mystic East of position, and the list may thus Irenaeus because Anti-Chriat comes "creative genius works, ite pres in the name-the most of its "sence seems to have fled us and "smells are in the place. It is true have originally been Philip Bar from the tribe of Dan. Tholmal or Matthew Bar Tholmai. Fechaps if we put down the "we cannot see it brooding on the "that I realised an ambition when
"waters. But I am But if this suggestion. is accept names of the twelve Apostles op-
sure that I went to Persia: but I also lost ed the number of the twelve is re-posite the twelve signs of the never perish, that it will come to milk and honey, perhaps even of "speech of the nobler sort canan illusion. I expected a land of duced,
Zodiac we might also get some in-us again, and that the great "silk and money. I found a land Then the name Thomas is very teresting coincidences,
But we must leave this little "ideas which are arising, not mere-"of famished inhabitanta and While the Greek term difficult.
volume, so full of speculative in the far horizon but out of rather inferior apricots." time, in the transitional stage, theory and suggestiveness for the the nearer distance, will so work rollicking in its humour, is the
"our noblest speech, not In the sometimes explanatory, sometimes perusal and study of the thought "game forms which in the past it Travels," the first part of which is neuromimesist the third on mental
chapter entitled,
"chose, but in forms suited to our a scream. "taste and mood, yet not less noble. Pearson has some biting things-to-treatment, unconsciously, and con- In other pages Mr. therapeutics; the fourth on self- "than those of the past. We have say about "Lendswingers," "Basa sciously; and the last chapter des "not lost the heavenly grammar of Barnacles," and "War Officials." cribes medical treatment of these "that high speech which orators' If his description of the site (or functional nerve diseases. "tongues turn gold."
Didymus may have been, at this
an unmeaning surname; the same ful reader. can hardly be said of Thomas (the twin). In Aramaic this would need a name, So-and-So, the twin,
in front of it. Judas Thomas.
Perhaps he was
A third difficulty comes with the substitution of Judas of James for Thaddaeus (Lebbaeus). Thaddaeus
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"Westminster Voices" by James Johnstone (Hodder and Stough- ton 12/6).
-K. W. L.
is adjectival and seems to require fully thought-out exposition of Iron Rations by Hesketh Pearson
another name.
More
"The Shah
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The author has done the public a great service, in explaining very
simply all technical terms in every
This is a meaty book packed
supposed site) of The Garden of Eden is a true one, then the sons with sentences to be read, re-read,
of Eve ought to be grateful to the chewed and digested, a very care-i
first mother for tasting the apple
day language. in which the some speech-criticism
and, thereby obtaining deliverance There are
(Cecil Palmer 7/6). Since the armistice there has from that torrid orchard before} In Chapter One, the following suspicious too that Thaddaeus is author succeeds so well in exclud-
Ing his own political views that been such a glut of short stories whose portals the sun's fiery sword į factors are described in a very Thomas.
Thus the original number of the after reading his diagnoses on the dealing with the war that many for ever standa guard..
homely way: the increase of func- refuse to consider Iron-Rations"-is-one-of-the-best-tional nerve disease, the corres Apostles may have to be reduced: voices and delivery of leading men readers now Indeed there is some tradition for of the three parties we cannot tell such books as "Iron Rations." books of its kind we have seen for ponding bodily strain decrease, as
alde Mr. Johnstone is | Those who do so are making
a long time.
the brain strain Increases, the a smaller beginning. "Two days to which after his haptism he chose eight partial. What Gosse, Saintsbury mistake and denying themselves a
former routine treatment of nerves, of the twelve disciples" (Book of and Lynd have been doing with literary treat. This all too short
NERVES IN DISORDER.
́and the painful results from mis- the Bee. C. XIII.).
authors he does with speakers. volume of stories and essays, de-
taken diagnosis, also the difference Mr. Johnstone affirms, and vindicated to the author's batman, la Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton in between hysteria and "shamming." We may compare with this
dicates the affirmation, that speak- happy blend of rich humour and their "People's Library" Series, As regards hysteria, the author initial starting of his mission the ing just as much as poetry, music stark
realism, brilliant short have just published another edi- anys:-"Hysteria is a serious affec- account of the early life, of
or painting is a fine art and that stories and realistic vignettes of tion of nerves in disorder: a plea tion, making life useless and “un- Buddha on which possibly the
therefore the same principles of the British conquest of Mesopo- for rational treatment, Christian tradition drew.
whose happy, and not rarely shortening judgment which apply to these tamia and the penetration of Par author is no other than the well- it" Next we are given 'a picture Buddha first converted five dia arta also apply to speaking. In sia told by a man of action who known Harley Street Physician, of a nervous Invalid in a healthy ciples, Then there were added to the opening chapter, "The kept open a pair of unusually ob A. T. Schofield, M.D., ... these Yacas and his four friends Hierarchy of Speech," in which the servant eyes.. Mesopotamia may be whose other works speak for them- showing the result of seeing the and family, and the treatment of auch, General-ten in all. "On hearing of these author propounds his theories, a blessed word but it is evidently "conversions fifty young men of there is some stiff reading, not be not a blessed country especially in
doctor, and how the turning point in her life may either be for good, Sa, Wyndham Street. Tel. C. 22. "entered the order and they be account of the mental concentra not be so very noble after all but sists of 263 pages including or for evil according to what at ----"came arbats shortly afterwards." tion demanded in order to grasp he in a prince compared to the short glossary, and index, will be titude that doctor takes. It is em Ship Chandlers.
The account goes on:-"While still the precise meaning of the definí- Persian. Listen to the author's 'found of great interest both to the phasized that the patient's suffer- "at the dear park of Rishivadanations and arguments put forward. Introductory remarks about Persia, general public, and also to mem-ings are not exaggerated, that a he sent the sixty out, two by two. For instance how many of us draw "Shakespeare is popularly but bers of the Medical Profession, change is needed, and the three to spread the doctrine that would sharp lines between fine-speaking, "quite erroneously credited with This volume is divided into five causes of this treatment are given. "help all creation."
rhetoric, eloquence, and oratory? "the statement that "music hath chapters: the first. chapter dealing He points out that patients are often
·This has a close resemblance to To most people these are prac- charms," I wish to be correctly with functional nervous disorders; the mission of the seventy in Lake. Itically synonymous terms but not "saddled with the remark that the second on neurasthenic “and
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