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Show How It Started By Jean fflewton "FOUND WANTING" THERE is nothing new under the sun," goes the old saying and how particularly applicable is this old saying to so many of the things we do and more especially say every day of our lives. Take for instance the line, "He was weighed in the balance and found wanting." Here is a metaphorical statement which we might encounter almost any where anytime implying that the person per-son referred to failed when subjected to a true test and which seems to smack of up-to-date, last-minute enterprise. en-terprise. Yet this line is not a modern creation. crea-tion. Not only as to language but as to form and ideographic matter is It perhaps really as old as the hills. For it comes to us practically in the identical words directly from the Bible in the Book of Daniel, it being a transcription of the, writing on the wall at the Feast of Belshazzar. (. 1932. Bell Syndicate.) WN'U Service. |