The Press., 1888-08-09
Volume 3l. Number ls.
NEW THINGS IN THE BIBLE.

"Don'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 train coming to-
 ward Milwaukee.
 "Every time," said the young minister
 ssI never open the books but find some new food for thought. And, speaking of food for thought, I must tell you what I
 found in Bible last week." and the min
 ister smiled regular Oshkosh smile.
 s'Yeu see, thsre was a family moved to
 Oshkosh this fall from Fond du Lac, and
 the first Sunday they came to our church,
 and I found they wanted to join us on a
 letter from their former church. ap-
 pointed time to receive them and give
 them the right hand of fellowship, but
 when the time came it had to be postpon- ed, 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 it somewhere, but she had hunted every where. I 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 maybe they had hid it il the Bible. The lady said maybe, but if it was in there it was lost, because they never could find anything in the Bible. I took up the good book and opened 1t at the New Testament, and in the first chap ter of Matthew found 8 paper and open ed it, and the brother and sister stood and looked over my shoulder. ,Opening the paper was about to read it when the lady said it was not the letter, it was only a recipe for making face powder. l let up on that and turned over few chapters, when I found an envelope, and opening 1t I read how to make mixed pickles, but that 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 ten dollar bill, which was good for it's face in two years after the acknowledgement of the southern confederacy. There was couple of long hairpins in Luke, also, and Q piece of black court plaster.
 In Genesis found remedy for rheuma- tism, in which, if my memory serves me, boneset tea was the principal ingredient, and little further along was formula for preparing a gargle for sore throat, and ready for silk quilt, and the tail end of
  Deuteronomy thought had the letter. There was an envelope with something n it, and opened it, but it wasn't a church letter. It was ten shares of stock in a Colorado silver mine, and on the back of the envelope was written in pencil, 'The condemnedest fraud on record Deuter- onomy didn't pan out any moro except a recipe for making salve for boils that was warranted to cure 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, that brought tears to the eyes of the brother and sister who were aiding me in the search, and knew 1t was from the head of their darling who had been taken away from them. On the next page was a recipe for making preserves of water melon rinds, and root beer recipe, with ginger in, and chromo from tea store.
 In Pauls Epistle to the Ephesians run on to recipe for making soft soap and clipping from an agricultural paper telling how to start balky horse, besides form ula for an insect powder that would knock moths and bed bugs colder than wedge. The Search was becoming interesting. When I got to Chronicles new beauties were opened to me, and found porous plaster and a photograph of Langtry. Pro- verbs contained much that would inspire new thoughts, including a. recipe for mak- ing sauerkrout, and one for making wash for salt rheum. tackled Revelations with much hope, and after reading paper a glowing account of how to wash hannels so they would not shrink, and another relating to the washing of silk handkerchiefs so the color would remain, found the letter we were looking for in an envelope with prepared mustard plas- ter, so think have demonstrated to you that he who carefully searches the scrip lures, in the ordinary family Bible, will find much that will make him tired."- Peck's Sun.