Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-04
NEW THINGS IN THE BIBLE.
A Young Minister'S Search Through
Scriptures.


Don't you find something new in the
Bible every time you look into it?' asked
an Oshkosh lawyer of a preacher, as they
were seated together on a train coming
towards Milwaukee.
Every time" said the young minister !;
% never open the book but | find some
new food for thought. And speaking OF
food for thought, l must tell you what
found in q Bible last week" and the minis
ter smiled regular Oshkosh smile. $ You
see, there was family moved to Oshkosh
this fall from Fond du Lac and the first
Sunday they came to our church. and
found they wanted to join US on letter
from their former church | appointed u
time to receive them and give them the
right hand of fellowship, but when the
time came it had TO be postponed, because
they could not find the letter from their
former church. The lady said she had
mislaid the letter. ] called at their house
twice and they had not found it. The lady
said she was sure she put 1t somewhere,
but she had hunted everywhere. | was
anxious to get them into our church out of
the cold. so suggested different places for
them TO hunt for it, Finally saw the Bible
on the table, and | suggested that may be
they had hid it in the Bible. The lady said
NAV be- but if it was there it was lost be-
cause they never could find anything in the
Bible i took up the Good Book and opened
it at the New Testament, and in the first
chapter of Matthew | found paper and
opened it, and the brother and sister stood
and looked over my shoulder Opening
the paper / was about to read it, when the
lady said that was not the letter, ii was
only recipe for making face powder.
let up on that and turned over few chap
tiers, when | found an envelope, and open
ing it l read how to make mixed pickles ;
but this was evidently side issue, and [
handed it to the lady, who said she had
been looking for that recipe ever since they
were married. In Luke | struck pay dirt,
turning up an old confederate $40 bill,
which was good for its face in two years
after the acknowledgment of the Southern
Confederacy. There were couple of long
hairpins in Luke, also, and piece of black
court-plaster. In Genesis l found rem
edy for rheumatism, in which, if my MEM
DRY serves me, bcneset tea was the princi-
pal ingredient, and little farther along
was formula for preparing a gargle for
sore throat, and over the leaf were two
blocks all patched ready for u silk guilt,
and the tail end of several necktieS. When
| opened on Deuteronomy | thought had
the letter. There was an envelope with
something in it, but it wasn't church let
ter 1t was ten shares of stock in a Col
orado silver mine and on the back of the
envelope was written in pencil, The con-
demndest fraud on record Deuteronomy
didn't pan out any more, except Il
recipe for making salve for boils
that was warranted to cure them,
but when | struck Leviticus there
seemed to be a grand field for research
There was new white kid glove with the
thumb tore half of, and a lock of curly
hair that brought tears TO the eyes of the
brother and sister who were aiding me in
the search, and | knew it was from the
head of the darling who had been taken
away from them. On the next page was Il
recipe for making preserves of watermelon
rinds, and q root bear recipe with ginger
in, and a chrome for tea store. In PauPs
Epistle to the EpEesians, | run on to
recipe for making soft soap and clipping
from an agricultural paper telling how to
start a baflly horse. besides formula for
an insect powder that would knock moths
and bed-bugs colder than a wedge The
search was beconming interesting. When
I got to Chronicles new beauties were
opened to he. and found porous plaster
and a photograph of Iangtry. Proverbs
contained much that would inspire new
thoughts, including 4 recipe for making
soft soap ana one for making a wash for
salt rheum. | tackled Revelations with
much hope, and after reading paper con-
tanning glowing account of how to wash
fiannels so they would not shrink, and an
other relating 10 the washing of silk hand
kerchiefs 50 the color would remain, |
found the letter we were looking for, in an
envelope with a prepared mustard plaster,
so think have demonstrated to you that
he who earthly searches the scriptures, in
the ordinary family Bible, will find much
that will make him tired ''-[Peck's Sun.