THE TORCH OF REASON, SIl.VERTON.OREGON, DECEM BER, 22. 1898.
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J o n a h ’s Troubles.
K eep Y o u r
A great m any jokes have been
cracked about Jo u ah — and by
C hristians, too. I t is not easy to
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say why th a t prophet and his won­
derful whale should be considered
fair sport by professing C hristian
believers. The book of Jo n ah is as
much a p a rt of th e Bible as the
gospel of St. Jo h n . And its m ain
incident is not more incredible or
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or more com ical th an others th a t
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ap p ear in the scriptures, the New
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T estam ent being in th a t respect
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quite as rem arkable as the Old.
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Som etim es one is ap t to feel th a t
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Jo n ah is being ra th e r unfairly
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treated. He m ay him self, if he ex­
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ists in the sp irit, consider th a t he
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has grave cause of com plaint;
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and not, indeed, for the first time
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in his life, as we learn from his
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story.
Supposing him to be with
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the sain ts and angels in heaven,
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m ay he not be deeply annoyed at
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having gone through all the perils
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the n a rra tiv e of one’s sufferings re­
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ceived with incredulous smiles, or
unfeeling jesting com m ents.
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W orst of all, the ill-tre a tm e n t is
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so invidious.
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one troubles to laugh at H abakkuk
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\V ithout Being Hampered by Supersti­
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the other prophets, m ajor and mi­
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tions and Dogmas.
nor, have a d istin ct “ p u ll” over
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poor Jo n ah . E lish a, the bald head,
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for instance, may walk around the
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realm s of bliss with inw ard peace
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and qu iet satisfaction. M ortals are
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true, and they were nearly as funny
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day of his etern al life th a t he never
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com ing up and exclaim ing in his
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low? They sav you’re an alleg o ry .”
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A pocalyptic beast with seven heads
and ten h o rn s? W h en , fu rth e r, th e
old O badiah— because he m ust be
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old by th is tim e— observed: “ Jo n ah ,
I see a lot of ch estn u ts still on the
trot anent th a t fish tail of yours,”
would it be in d iap h an o u s feathers
to stan d it an d not sw ear?—[E x.
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