The president of a Danish Lutheran seminary of Dos Moines, Town U.S.A.), has been misled because he does not believe in the story of Jonah and the whale. In the older legends from which the Biblical story is derived the hero o ffche adventure is swallowed by a crocodile. The good Lutherans of lowa arc probably not moved by the ai guments of the folk-lorists. As a nisbop once said ; “ It is much better to believe something you want to believe than something you can’t believe.” Barnum grasped that significant fact. In his circus parades the van containing (or purposting to contain) the hippopotamus was always “ Blood Sweating Behemoth of Holy Writ.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19021, 17 August 1925, Page 11
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