Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1914 — Mixed Metaphors. [ARTICLE]

Mixed Metaphors.

A clergyman in an eastern town warned his hearers lately “not to walk in a slippery path, lest they be sucked, maelstrom-like, into its meshes." This metaphor suggests that of another clergyman, who prayed that the Word might be as a nail driven in a sure place, sending its roots downwards and its branches upwards.