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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 23, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 51.

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Japanese Figures of Speech

REV. R. E. McALPINE writes in the Christian Recorder: “The Japanese talk in figures of speech; metaphors seem to come natural to them. At the Christian lecture meetings which are so commonly held in this land, it is quite usual for the first speaker to apologize for ‘presuming to appear before this assembly and venturing to defile their ears,’ by some such explanation as the statement that he is merely going before the great speakers who shall follow, in order to ‘brush away the dew from their pathway.’”