Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-21
For Sunday Reading
AN Sort, ofObinion,
Bible Misquotation.

When the modern college student is
reproached for his ignorance OF The
bible. the presumption of course is that
his elders. being the offspring of less
degenerate days. are not equally guilty.
But this is apparently not the case.
The Christian World London) gives a
column Of instances culled by writer
who signs himself Long Primer" Not
long since he exposed the guilt Of men,
bers of parliament in the matter IT
biblican quotations: now he turns on
the Journalists. AS his gaze roves from
one side of the Atlantic to the other,
neither branch OF the English family
is permitted to sit in the seat of the
scornful or the derider. First he takes
his fellow countrymen in hand /:
Some of the oldest plumbers in my
collection are evidently examples of
that confusion of well-known names
or incidents to which every one is IL
able when tired or overdriven. 1t may,
therefore, have been merely by a slip
of the pen that writer in The Daily
Telegraph some years ago perpetrated
the following sentence: These repre-
sentatives Of the broad basis OF Partisan
life were thrust into the background
and were fain, like Nicodemus before
his conversion, to climb up tree in
order to catch a glimpse Of the modern
Messiah in his Muscovfte uniform A
similar explanation would account 70,
the declaration made by The Times
in 1886 that II the government Of the
day came to grief, they would fall
like the walls of Jericho before the
noise of empty pitchers In The Hub
a cycling paper, there once appeared
the generalization that, like the
Ephesians Of old, the Viennese dearly
love novelty From a review in q
daily paper still furnishing extrac,
his passage: The Joy Of the man in
the scriptures, who, having found the
talent which he had lost, called together
his friends and neighbors to rejoice
with him, is the only thing comparable
with the Joy Of the reader Of books
when once in a way he comes upon a
work of real genius Possibly. too. il
was some sort Of muddle rather thar
actual Ignorance that once led The ST
Stephens Review. after quoting st
fauis diisparas :ns comment on the
Cretans. to add that st Paul knew his
fellow countrymen.'
'Tn other cases one is justified In
concluding that the actual text OF
scripture is unfamiliar. Otherwise a
leading London Journalist. being struck
at the academy by picture Of Hero
dias and her Daughter would not
have turned I'D his classical dictionar,
when he went home in order to dis.
cover who on earth Herodias might be
This occurred. Of course, several years
ago, before It was the fashion to teach
scripture history on the music hal
stage with dancing girls as dnstruc.
tors"
But 1T is to the American rather
! than to the English press" he says
chat one must look for examples O
sheer ignorance in biblical matters
We read:
~An extraordinary but quite credibl,
story came from Boston the other day
| A leading minister OF that city wa
rung up on the telephone by a reporte
who wanted to know the subject of hi
next Sunday mornings sermon. wis
as serpents and harmless as doves
was his reply. The reporter seemed I,
have some difficulty In catching exact
ly what was said, and asked that 1
Knight be repeated. Finally he assure