Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1911 — The "Sure Nail” of Palestine. [ARTICLE]

The "Sure Nail” of Palestine.

William H. Thompson’s book about the Holy Land, called “The Land and the Book," has had the curious fate at outlasting many books of Biblical tore. Its popularity through the yean Is due, in part, to the fact that it explains so many obscure matters In such a natural way. For instance, there is the passage in Isaiah: "1 wIH him with & nail In a sure place, ana again: Tnis nail, fastened to a sure place, shall be removed, and cut down and fall.” The “nail,” says Dr. Thompson, was a wooden peg or tout pin, sometimes driven into the wall through the plaster and he add?