Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — The Sin of the Pharisees. [ARTICLE]

The Sin of the Pharisees.

A school of poor children, having read in the Bible the denunciations against hypocrites who “strain at a gnat and swallow a camel,” were afterward examined by a benevolent patroness as to their recollections of the chapter. “ What, in particular, was the sin of the Pharisees, children ?” “Aiting camels, my lady,” was the prompt reply. It is asserted that half of Thoreau’s manuscripts have not yet been published,