Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-05-19
4 Theological Discussion.
TIE VIEWS OF MR.. WINTERBOTHAM AND Mr.
BENTHAM on a sCRIPTURAL QUOTATION.

4AAi- AAfN1 VI NM WIN E-fiftlAAM AM An.
BENTHAM On a sCRIPTURAL QUOTATION.
From the Burlington Hawk-E Eye.
at always amuscs me. Mr.. Winter
bOtham remarked, as he accepted half Mr..
Bentham's umbrella on his way down Divis-
ion street, "to see newspaper attempt to
quote passage Of Scripture. It's some
thing out of their line. Ha ha ha :"
"Oh, decidedly; a dead language coin
cided Mr.. Bentham, and then they both chor-
used out, "llaw, haw, haw ~
"N0w, the other morning" said Mr..
Winterbotham, Il noticed in the Hawk-Eye
an attempt to point some article by pas
sage of Scripture, very good way when a
man knows how to do it.
"Oh, certainly" echoed Mr.. Bentham,
"but when a newspaper man distorts and
maRgles a passage Of Holy Wit"
"Oh, TO be sure =" said Mr. Winter
botham, and then again the absurdity of the
idea oyereame them, and they roared in
chorus again, claw, haw, haw ~ Then
Mr.. Wmterbotham went on, "but in the
instance was about to refer to, he said,
''it was really too bad. The editor. a we'll
meaning fellow, no doubt, said, in an at
tempt to quote Isaiah, and they shall beat
their swords into. .ploughshares and their
spears into pruning hooks, whereas the pas
sage reads, all nations shall beat their swords
into pruning hooks and their spears into
plough am so sensitive about a
misquotation that the slightest error annoys
me beyond measure.
"And me. too, said Mr.. Bentham, land
| must therefore call your attention to til
N-r,4v - l.. t,1f
peoples instead Of all nations, and the
spears comes first, making the passage read
'au people shall beat their spears into
plough>hares and their swords into pruning
hooks
Il beg your pardon, said Mr.. Winter
botham' 'but | think NY quotation IS cor
rect You see -
"Ezcuse me, " said Mr. Bentham, "but
you are wrong. sir. decidedly wrong"
Pardon me-. said Mr.. Wintorb0tham,
drawing his breath very hard through his
teeth, "but your quotation-ha, ha is
very nearly as bad as the editor s.
"lf You viii permit me, returned Mr..
Beutham, stepping quickly across the gut
ter, So Is 10 ilb Mr. W interbltham's hat
over his eyes with the umbrella, Il must
say that j, would make the editor laugh il
he could hear You quote Scripture
"Aoa arc doesey, snarlcd Mr. Winter
b1then. IL could quote Scripture before
You could read your primer, and | know it,
nations and swords.
If couldn't remember what | read better
than You do, said Mr.. Bentham, I'D be
ashamed to look at Bible, and know it..
peoples and 'srear-.
Nations and swords. yelled Mr.
Winterbotham. So fercc.y that it sounded a,
though he had invented - new kind of oath
Did teach a Bible class in Muskinguu
eight years for nothing 2"
"Isn'ta man who had led the tunes il
/ 5anday-scho0l- ever since he could sing ex-
pected q know something about the Bible !?
r1aroi Mr.. Beutham. ANY fool ought Il
know It's peoples and spears.
"Aou re foo. yourself, roared Mr.
/ Wintcrbotham Its nations
Your liar '' yelled Mr. Bentham, "l
tell ye it'- 'peorles
IN slap y0u mouth, shouted Mr.. Win
terbotham. ''if you call me heathen, y0l
iiliterate old biasphemer ,'
an punch Your head with this umbrel
a." -hriekad Mr. Bantham. IF You say
that again, you dissenting old reprobate
YOU don know enough Of the Bible to &c
half way to heaven on
You're lying ini1el, roarel Mr.
Wintcrbothsm, And You couldn't say th
commandments IT you were hanged for it,
Mr.. Bentham was so mad that be shu
down the umbrella So suddenly that it pull
ed Mr Winterbotham hat of. and he in re
talation, aimed a -woopatMr. Beutham witt
his cane, in lodging which that gentleman
slipped and fell beyond the edge of the walk
and went Stradiliug and leaping and slidin
down the muddy hillside into happy hollow
carrying Mr. Winicrbltham 5 hat with him
which. when he reached the bottom of tn
grade, be cast into the mud and stamped on
Then the two alienated friends shouted De
fauce to each other and went on their d
yidel way-. Mr Winterbotham in his bar
head. and Mr. Bentham incrusted in mud
and it is still disputed question with thei
which Of the two got that quotation righi
for they both knew the Hawk-Eye wa
wrong.