Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1915 — Humorous, If True. [ARTICLE]

Humorous, If True.

Readers who had some difficulty in remembering where the Falkland islands were, may have been helped by the recollection of one of lan Maclaren’s stories. After a disaster to an emigrant ship many years ago, some of the survivors reached those islands. When the news reached home, „ the minister of a Scottish church to which some of the emigrants had belonged, prayed thus: “Oh, Lord, we pray thee to be with our brethren, stranded in the Falkland islands, which, as Thou knowest, are situated in the South Atlantic ocean.” -j