The Washington herald., 1914-06-28

place, but you have the scene before
you, just as 1t has been handed down
from father to son. These carpists ask:
Why should the whale have swallowed
Jonahr / ask them in return II they
can reasonably expect that Jonah should
have swallowed the whale? Some one
had to be swallowed. The whale was
there and Jonah was there. and the
whale being the biggest he naturally
took the lead in bringing matters to a
climax. 1t is contended that Jonah
could not have lived on after being swal-
lowed. How do these carpists know
that he couldn't? Did they ever inter
view a man who had been gulped down?
Those were special occasions, and spe-
cial whales and special Jonahs were
made to Mt them. To my mind, IT was
as easy for that whale to take In Jonah
as IT Is for a goat TO bolt a sardIne can.
and if there Is a cock-eyed, bow-backed
villaint among us who wants a war-map
of the interior of that fish, that he may
dispute sacred history. let him rise up
and face me. It's not our business 10
incEIire how Jonah made out after being
swallowed. He may have had a good
time or a hard time of II, but We know
he wasIall o. K. when he reappeared. Q.
Hope Jones has had his dark days, my
friends, Ibut in the midst OF the worst of
them heNwas always consoled by the be-
lief that Jonah was duly swallowed.
"Our next picture represents Daniel in
the Hon's,den, and here again we find the
agnostics in opposition to us. My artist
was not there. but II there Is false
hearted. hump-backed, bow-minded man
in this audience who is going to let facts
make any difference with him I do not
want his money. History tells us that
there was a cage Of lions; that there
was a man named Daniel: that the door
of that cage was opened and Daniel
chucked In. It was expected that the
beasts would make cat-meat Of him right
off the reel, as they hadn't been fed
for three DAYS, but they never harmed
a hair of his head. and the scoffers
therefore contend that the story is all
a yarn. Q. Hope Jones is not here to
deceive you. Yon can bet dollars to cents
that Daniel and the Hons were all there,
and that IL the lions didn't eat him
there were good reasons for it-reasons
perfectly satisfactory to those who wrote
of the times. 4 scoffer asks: Does any
man believe that II ! were to enter a
cage of hungry lions I would come out
unharmed?' That has nothing to do
with the case. A lion which had reasons
for not eating Daniel might have reasons
for devouring David. have tumbled
down a well. rolled of the roof of a
barn. been tossed by bull and kicked
by a mule. and the fact that I am
living tonight is perhaps due to my SOL
emn and unalterahle belief that Daniel
was cast into a den Of lions and came
out without a button missing.
''Our next picture represents another
incident which scoffers have made much
of. A good man was going up the noun
tains to pray. A lot Of children followed
,FN Ay,A Id IL A.1I
threw stones at him and Knocked him
The bears came forth from the thIckets
and destroyed about forty Of the mock
ers. II Is contended that those chill
dren were guIeless, and that the mercI-
full Creator would not have inflicted such
punishment upon them. My friends. no
man of today knows the kind Of 1000
years ago. It Is my opinion that he was
a bad Iot-about forty times worse than
the Bowery hoodlum OF the present gen.
Grafton. Last night, as I held forth in
the town hall of Pumpkin Polnt-on-the-
Hudson. a boy hardly ten years old threw
goose egg from the back end OF the
hall and hit me in the solar plexus, and
the exhibition was interrupted for twelve
minutes. II a lad OF today. after 1000
years OF moral elevation, will do that
what can you say OF the children of that
date? The bears might have overdone
their work, carried away hy enthusiasm,
but let us continue to believe that the
moral lesson was not lost upon the COM
munity.
AN intermission Of five minutes will
now occur that may change from Bibli-
cal subjects Of 2,Nno years ago to land
scapes along the Erie Canal. and when
the exhibition is finally concluded and
the hat passed again for the benefit Of
the orphans of Liberia. each and every
one of you will have had the worth of
your money twice over and will GO home
with newer and nobler resolves in your
hearts"