THE BIBLE ON THE WATER BURY.
Very few people, apparently, are aware mat the Waterbury is distinctly mentioned jn the Bible, and that, too, in a very early book of the Old Testament. If you will ask your clergyman he'll probably say it is not Mere ;that this watch, although undeniably * good one, and quite trustworthy, cannot ooasfc of such ancient origin, and so on, ad ™. Bub he is wrong all the same. The j* rsfc reference we can find dates back to the wme of Moses, who is credited with standlng on the banks of the Red Sea, latitude Jfj* 'longitude not logged ; and watching ihe^ Water bury Pharaoh and all his hosts." Theological students whose mediations are so superficial that they have bussed this important fact hitherto, can fliake up for lost time by securing a Waterwry and living U p to it,
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 59, 11 March 1889, Page 3
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