riage—all were merry meetings in church-*yard or church which all the inhabitants were bidden to attend at a charge of one penny. Tho they had grown to unruly revels, they were not finally supprest till the time of the Commonwealth.—Edward Gilliat, "Heroes of Modern Crusades."
(1655)
INTEMPERANCE IN SONS
Rev. W. F. Crafts says:
Recently, in a New England manufacturing
city, we noted a change that bodes no good
for business or politics or religion. We
found that the old men who founded and developed
the mills were all total abstainers
and had been from youth, but their sons,
who were succeeding to these great responsibilities,
had nearly all of them come back
from college with drinking habits.
(1656)
Intemperate Living—See Longevity Accounted for.
INTENSITY
In the concluding chapters of Ellen Terry's
memoirs (McClure's Magazine), she writes
of the last days of Henry Irving. The doctor
had warned Irving not to play "The
Bells" again after an illness that attacked
him in the spring of 1905. He saw the "terrible
emotional strain 'The Bells' put upon
Henry"—how he never could play the part of
Matthias "on his head," as he could Louis XI, for example. Miss Terry goes on in
words almost implying that Matthias killed
him. We read:
"Every time he heard the sound of bells, the throbbing of his heart must have nearly killed him. He used always to turn quite white—there was no trick about it. It was imagination acting physically on the body.
"His death as Matthias—the death of a strong, robust man—was different from all his other stage deaths. He did really almost die—he imagined his death with such horrible intensity. His eyes would disappear upward, his face grow gray, his limbs cold.
"No wonder, then, that the first time that the Wolverhampton doctor's warning was disregarded, and Henry played 'The Bells,' at Bradford, his heart could not stand the strain. Within twenty-four hours of his death as Matthias, he was dead."
(1657)
INTENTION
While "we have this treasure in earthen vessels" we can never fully manifest the best that is in us. Benjamin R. Bulkeley tells us in the following verse that God knows how much better we intend than we can do:
There was never a song that was sung by thee,
But a sweeter one was meant to be.
There was never a deed that was grandly done,
But a greater was meant by some earnest one,
For the sweetest voice can never impart
The song that trembles within the heart.
And the brain and the hand can never quite do
The thing that the soul has fondly in view.
And hence are the tears and the burdens of pain,
For the shining goals are never to gain,
But enough that a God can hear and see
The song and the deed that were meant to be.
(1658)
Interception—See Interruption.
Intercession—See Sacrificial Mediation.
INTERDEPENDENCE
Every great newspaper periodically announces
its dependence upon immature, half-grown
boys, whose nimble steps and strident
voices secure its circulation. The brain
which forges the editorial, the skill which
administers the counting-room, however
great, imposing, or commanding, must doff
its hat of necessity to the barefooted news-*boy
and confess its obligation to him in his
obscurity for its chance to reach its constituency.—Nehemiah Boynton.
(1659)
See Solidarity; Survival of the Fittest.
Interest in Religious Education—See
Adapting the Bible.
Interest, Intense—See Book, Influence of a.
INTEREST, SIGNIFICANT
I have often been appealed to by friends,
who said: "Can't you take this young man
and give him employment?" Then I will
watch that young man for a month or so
and see what it is that he takes up in the
morning. If he takes up the newspaper and
turns to the political part of the paper, and
is interested in that, why that is a good
symptom of his intellectual tendencies; but
if, instead of that, he takes up a magazine
