Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1890 — No Light from That Text. [ARTICLE]

No Light from That Text.

It is not always safe at critical moments in one’s life to rely upon receiving guidance from the passage of Scripture which the eye may fall upon. An earnest Christian layman who was in the leather business was in great perplexity not long ago over complications in his business. Thinking the problem over in his office, from which he could view in the warehouse piles of leather and skies of one sort and another, he resolved to try the expedient commended to him by devout souls of resorting to the Bible. He happened to open at the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, and the first word? his eyes struck were these: “They went about in sheepskins and goatskins.” He still believes, however, that the good book contains piles of comfort and counsel. Gold is worth about $240 per pound, troy; platinum, $130; and silver about sl2. Nickel would be quoted at about 60 cents, and pure aluminium $8 to $9 to the tiqy pound.