Section 18. Give⁠ the Honour to God Alone

A lady applied⁠ to the worthy philanthropist⁠ Richard Reynolds on behalf of a little orphan boy. After he⁠ had (App. § 17) given liberally⁠, she said: “When⁠ he is old enough, I (App. § 15) will teach⁠ him to thank his benefactor.” “Stop⁠,” said the good man, “thou art mistaken⁠. We do not thank the clouds for rain (S. 3, N. 2). Teach⁠ him to look higher, and thank Him⁠ who giveth both the clouds and the rain.”—Rev. R. K. Arvine.

Say ‘Give God alone the honour’.

to apply to a person on behalf of somebody, sich bei einem für jemand verwenden.

Menschenfreund, m.

To avoid ambiguity turn the pron. ‘he’ here by ‘Reynolds’.

‘liberally’, here reichlich.

The conjunction ‘when’, used in the sense of ‘whenever’, and referring to indefinite time, must be rendered by ‘wenn’ (compare S. 4, N. 2); as—

When (whenever) my old teacher came to Hamburg, he always stayed with me. Wenn mein alter Lehrer nach Hamburg kam, wohnte er stets bei mir.

The verb ‘lehren’, to teach, requires the accusative of the person. Render the sentence ‘I — benefactor’ by ‘I will teach him to be thankful to his benefactor’.

Halt´!

to be mistaken, sich irren.

Teach — higher, Lehre ihn höher blicken.

The pronoun ‘Him’ is here used as a demonstr. pron.; ‘both ... and’, sowohl ... wie auch; ‘to give’, here = to send.