Show I CHANGING WORDS I I In I The recent talk about reform I 1 Vias Imas lul attention t to III tho the e that word words are subject subjected to not lint only In lit r regard R ird to tn time tho letters with which they Ihl arc written but also 0 with respect to 10 th their lr meaning of t hu ha human t haman Is I a curious fact of or the tho man language Sometimes Rom words word de le generate as It 1 were w r In molly many nil II In were one once perfectly per pr prInt mMble Int are no mm longer heard MUll in tn polite polito society Ambition l lan Is III Isan an nn Illustration of o how haw words word change l moaning t first that term imphy Imp I denoted the Iho net act of oe a 3 candidate for or of pt office lice fice In going about to solicit vol votes Then It 1 canto canio to moan mean nn an Inordinate dr ht for tor power or honor or tl m anti and In that settee sense of the word ure characterizes ambition as asa a n ala In n by I 1 which the angeLs fell Tho Thio Portland Oregonian given hN another In In tn the word resentment which now means mt nn of ot nn an aller anger ger er Originally It signified civil rill atten attention tion or recognition r of at a friendly act In III our older literature we 0 rend read that thata n a person n taking leave of o another to whom ho lie was OS Indebted l for tor hospitality said alii You ou may be cure ture Mr sir that I Ishall shall hall be glad of ot any an opportunity to display may rny m resentment re of I your atten attentions tiona The hOt host looked blank biank when his ht guest said aId That Th word resent rOMI aunt Is I a 1 good gooel word vord ord dr aIr that has been brought into disgrace by b mans wick wickedness wickedness edness It once was as employed ed In re reo relation lotion lation to UI Hut It has now been degraded till one orte fe toels h surprise when hn It signifies I anything an but retaliation tion for or an all affront or Injury James JaUe version of oC the h Bible nible furnishes n a I good Illustration of oC I I the tho changes chan es many man words have under tinder son gone In moaning since Ince the tho th beginning of ot the seventeenth century Wo We oan oon mention only a n few CPI Frnnk ly tf Ia In that thal version ver lon mesas means He Ifs frankly forgave them both beth means possessor e or n as the Ger Ocr German German man Herr nerr Heir of ot IK Is J loner of ot it it Leasing In Ps ls 1 4 2 means lying In To lot let means to 10 hinder L Lewd wd Acts 17 l I 5 means mean Ignorant Idle hits bat bad Mystery Ite In the erslon means a secret that thatis is III revealed a R truth pot known previous ous to the Ih revelation Now ow It means something incomprehensible h n Tho Pauline Paulino doctrine that thaI th the gentile world orld worldS WM IU S to bi be admitted to tho th church I ii i called a mystery be It was ras not made mado known to until rev revealed l d by ty bytho the tho gospel goepel o pel S mystery means the time symbol or emblem of oC a n revealed truth Carriage means maun MI barrage baggage o and d vain Aln Is I false fahe unreal Such Instances are In Innumerable Innumerable numerable Words Word change hang in mean meaning ing In ns as n well 11 a as in form torm from ago age to tonI age nI and we ne fancy Cane this will trill go 0 on 03 as aston a along long ton M va language lal ulf remains n II living me mc of oC communication of ot thought though Dead Iad I ead languages do not change Liv Lh Living tag ing speech will III conform to the de do demands minds mands of ot the ever varying tastes tute and Ideas of ot th the successive generations na of at mankind |