The Republican journal., 1885-05-14
The Bible as an Oracle.

A CHICAGO WOMANS LUCK IN ANSWERING
QUESTIONS.
\ correspondent of the Inter-OcCan tells of
a Chicago woman who sits down in the pres
ence of her family and friends and gets definite
answers to questions by simply opening the
Bible. These questions may be asked by any
one who is present. As soon as the question is
put, Mrs. X. V. opens the Bible wherever her
fingers seem impelled to stop, she herself re-
manning mentally passive. She then looks at
the page, and usually sees at once the verse
which is an answer 10 the question. Some
times however. she has to look over the whole
page TO find it. Very often twenty or thirty
questions are asked in succession. The lady
gets answers equally well when she asks the
questions herself and when She is alone SeV-
eral thousand questions have been answered in
this way by Mrs. II. Y. We have only marked
down a few OF these, enough. though. TO ill
three columns of the lnter-Ocean in this type.
W often ASK five or six questions on different
paris OF the same subject. AS rule, the texts
which are given for answers are the most eN
actiy appropriate that could be selected, even if
person should read the whole Bible through
to lind each one. And most commonly the
texts used are such are not frequently quot
| ed. In the examples given below the reader
will remember thai very often the peculiar per
| tnence of the answer depended upon the cir
cum>tances under which The question was ask
ed, or upon the conversation which had Just
occurred For instance, Il Young man called at
the door one evening and said: what do You
name This house! | come up here to get com
forted whenever get DISCOURAGED, and think
YOU should call ii Gilead." The lady answered:
Il call it the Lords house, but | will 90 and
open the Bible and sce." She opened TO EZp-
kel Xi, |, "MoreoVer, the spirit lifted me an
and brought me unto the east gale of the Lords
house" The front door of her house is on the
east side. She had thought of planting num-
Der of mulberry trees III the Yard TO feed silk
worms, and asked if she should do The
answer was Deuteronomy xvi, p Thou shalt
not plant thee IA grove Of any trees near unto
the altar OF the Lord thy God, which thou shalt
make thee"
We We're making an altar cloth to illustrate
the symbolism of the Bible and asked what we
should put upon It's corners. We We're given
Exodus XXVII, - .'And thou shalt make The
horns Of ii upon the four corners thereof" We
| asked, "Shail we make model OF the pave
ment or floor work of the divine throne de>
cribed in the Bible?' 1t was opened to Exodus
XXIV, 10: "And they saw the God of Israel,
| ed work of sapphire stone, and, as it were,
the body OF heaven in clearness.' This text
was not in my mind at the time of asking, but
instead l thought Of Ezekiel and Revelations
". put this question: "Some of our recent
scientists teach that red, yellow and blue are
not the primitive coiors. but that green should
| take the place of yellow. Now, am | right in
thinking that yellow is the primitive color!'
OF course, the phrase ''yeow is Il primitive
COLOR cannot be found in the Bible, and all
| that could be given was an approximate an
swer. This was the passage opened, Eek. 1,
Al: "And looked and behold Il great Whirl-
wind came out of the north, and great cloud
| and a fire Unfolding ITSELF and brightness
about it and out of the midst thereof as the col
| or Of amber" ''And the living creatures had
straight feet, and they sparkled like the color
| Of Furnished Brass This answer contained
two objects of pronounced yellow color. Who
| could ask more?