Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-10-03

VIZ tall fare for the whole voyage, but the
fhtp company did not fiji their part of the
.ontraci. 10 this day they have not paid
Jack that passage money. Why people
should doubt the story of Jonah and The
whale is moro OF . mystery than the Bible
vent itself do not need the fact that
Plny, the historian, records That the skel
eton of whale forty feet long, and with
hide foot and half thick, was brought
from Joppa to Rome.
The event recorded in the book of Jonah
has occurred a thousand times. The Lord
always has n whale outside the harbor for
man who starts in the wrong direction.
Rccreant Jonah! | do not wonder that
even the whale was sick of him. This
prophet was put in the Bible, not as an cx-
ample but "a a warning because the world
not only needs lighthouses, but buoys,
to show where the rocks are. TIE Bible
story of him ends by showing the prophet
in n 1T Of the suks. He was mad because
Nmcveh was not destroyed, and then he
went out to pout, and sat under big leaf,
using it for shade from the tropical sun,
and when n worm disturbed that leaf and
it withercd and the sun smote Jonah, he
flew into u great rage and said, at is better
for me TO die tina. to live a prophet in
a raste because he had lost his umbrella
Beware of petulancel
But standing here on the housetop at
Ioppa ! look off upon the sand near the
beach, and almost expected totind them
"rimsoned and iucarnadined. But no; the
aims long ago washed away the last sign
4 the Eapoleonic massacre. Napoleon
was marching on through the coasts. He
lad here at Joppa four thousand Alba
iians, who had been surrendered as pris-
uer- Of war and under promise of pro
rctiou. What shall h do with them? 1t
ill be impossible for him TO take them
long, and he cannot afford to leave sol
iiers enough 90 guard them from escape.
t viii not be difficult for the man who
'robe the heart OF lovely Josephine and
fho, Wncn asked II the great losses OF life
his battles were not TOO dear prlce to
ay for bis victories, shrugged his shoul-
.ers miThluIIJ and sad, on must break
~ eSgs If you want 90 make an omelet'
} .Hy 1t Will not be diIhcult Tor HIM 10
eide.
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'"eh out on the sands ana put to death
me Thousand OF 'heih, Two thousand OF
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