Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — Verification of the Bible. [ARTICLE]

Verification of the Bible.

A Chicago Board of Trade man set out to “do” Europe and the East in a week or ten days, or such a matter. In youth he had absorbed some New Testament legends, and felt a sudden interest on arriving in the Holy Land to cross the Sea of Galilee. The laziness of the ferryman and the indescribable slowness of the craft terribly exasperated the Chicago man, when he testily inquired: “See here, stranger, how long have you been runnin’ this ferry ?” “Forty-five years,” was the placid and lazy answer. “Who held it before you?” asked Chicago. “My father, who ran it fifty years,” was the calm reply. “Well, how long has this dumed monopoly been in your family, anyhow?” “Three thousand years,” pensively spoke the ferryman, as his dreamy gaze wandered to the palm trees upon the shore. “Well, by thunder!” shouted the Chicago man, with muttering disgust. “It is no wonder the Lord wanted to walk over!”