Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Tried Many Tears Ago. [ARTICLE]

Tried Many Tears Ago.

Piny speaks in his natural history, 50 A. D., of the good effect of “pouring oi! upon troubled waters.” More than eleven centuries ago the venerable Bede tells of a priest sent into Kent to fetch King Edwin’s daughter, who was to marry King Oswarra. He visited the Bishop to get his blessing, and was told .that the journey would be stormy, but that a pot of oil which was given him would still the tempest When the storm came the priest used the pot of oil the bishop had given and 10, the tempest was stilled. Professor Horsford and Commodore Wilkes are men of modern times wbe have seen the same calming effect produced in violently stormy wsatksr. —Bt Louis Globe-Democrat