Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-02-26
The Things in the Bible.

tDon't you find something new in the
Bible every time you look into it?' asked
an Oshkosh lawyer of preacher, as they
were seated together ON q train coming to-
ward Milwaukee.
EVERY time.' said the young minister.
81 never open the book but find some new
food for thought. And speaking of food
for thought must tell you what | found
in the Bible last week." and the minister
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. l appointed time to re-
ceive 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. l
called at the house twice and they had not
found it. The lady said she was sure she
put it somewhere but she had hunted every
wher,. was anxious to get them into our
church out of tina cold, SO suggested diff
ferent places for them to hunt for it. Final
ly saw the Bible on the table, and | sug-
gested that maybe they had hid it in the
Bible. The lady said maybe, but if it was
there it was lost, because they never could
find anything in the Bible.
II 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, it was only
recipe for making face powder. let up on
that and turned over few chapters, when
I found an envelope, and opening 1t read
how to make mixed pickles, but that was
evidently side issue, and l handed it to
the lady, who said she had been looking for
that recipe ever since they were married.
In Luke l struck pay dirt, turning up an
old Confederate ten dollar bill, which was
good for its face in two years after acknowl-
edgment of the Southern Confederacy.-
There was couple of long hair-pins in
Luke also, and piece of black court plas-
ter. In Genesis found a remedy for rheu
matisn, in which, if my memory serves me,
boneset tea was the principal ingredient,
and little farther along was formula for
preparing gargle for sore throat, and over
the leaf were two blocks all patched ready
for silk quilt and the tail end Of several
necktits When I opened on Deuteronomy
/ thought had the letter. There was an
envelope with something in it, but it wasn't
q church letter. 1t was ten shares of stock
in a Colorado silver mine, and cn the back
was written in pencil, the condemnist fraud
on record Deuteronomy didn't pan ont
any more except a recipe for making salve
for boils that was warranted to cnre them,
but when struck Leviticus there seemed
to be grand field for research.
There was new white kid glove with the
thumb torn half off, and lock of curly hair
$hoth 1,< %oor tot ho nf the hrOtt,lr
and sister who were aiding me in the search,
and knew it was from the head of their
darling who. had been taken away from
them. On the next page was recipe for
making preserves of watermelon rinds, and
a root beer recipe, with ginger in, and
chrome from a tea store. In Pauls Epistle
to the Ephesians / ran on to u recipe for
making soft soap and a clipping from an
agricultural paper telling how to start a
balky horse, besides formula for an insect
powder that would knock moths and bed
bugs colder than wedge. The search was
becoming interesting. When got to
Chronicles new beauties were opened to
me, and found a porous plaster and
photograph of Langtry. Proverbs contain
ed much that would inspire new thoughts,
including a recipe for making wash for
salt rheum. I tackled Revelations with
mucn nope. anu aItef rea0lhg paper COIL
tanning glowing account of how to wash
fannels SO they would not shrink, and an
other relating to the washing of silk hand
kerchiefs so tine color would remain, found
the letter we were looking for in au envelope
with prepared mustard plaster. So |
think | have demonstrated to you that he
who carefully searches the Scriptures in the
ordinary family Bible, will find much that
will make him tired "-Peck's Sun.