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But when we read of a dignitary in a recent Church congress laying down that the narratives in the books of Jonah and Daniel must be accepted because Jesus quoted them, we may wish that Arnold were here to reproach the orthodox for want of intellectual seriousness. These years also saw the appearance of Mr.
Deep down under the squalid exterior, unparticipative in the hideous merriment and recklessness of the criminal, there is another self, a chained and suffering inner man, crying out, in the intervals of intoxication and brutal excesses, like Jonah from the bosom of hell.
Suddenly his utterance was choked by a violent fit of coughing, and he stared at Jonah, crazed with hate and prophetic fury. A crowd began to gather, and Jonah, afraid of being recognized, walked rapidly away. "Now yer can see fer yerself," he cried, sullenly. "Yes, I see," said Clara, strangely excited; "and I think you would be as cruel with a woman as you are with a man."
It was from Jaffa that Jonah sailed when he was told to go and prophesy against Nineveh, and no doubt it was not far from the town that the whale threw him up when he discovered that he had no ticket. Jonah was disobedient, and of a fault-finding, complaining disposition, and deserves to be lightly spoken of, almost.
"This is the message which I have to deliver unto you in the name of the Lord, and even as Jonah was sent to Nineveh after a strange discipline with a word of mercy, so am I constrained against my will to carry a word of searching and trembling. "First" and between the heads the Rabbi paused as one whose breath had failed him "every man belongs absolutely to God by his creation. "Second.
But they were face to face with death, and hence the anachronism had been adopted, and they had fallen back on the custom of their fathers. So three-and-twenty judges they had appointed, without usurers, or slave-dealers, or gamblers, or aged men or childless ones. The judges had sat in session the same night, and their judgment had been unanimous. The lot of Jonah had fallen on Israel.
They lived in cabins that looked like canoes; being, for the most part formed of the jaw-bone of a whale, put up as rafters, across which were laid pieces of driftwood covered over with long grass, the skins of large sea animals, and earth; so as to be quite comfortable, in despite of the rigors of the climate; though we are told they had as ancient and fish-like an odor, "as had the quarters of Jonah, when he lodged within the whale."
When Miss Amelia pronounced "bombazine" to Laddie our side cried, "Careful, Laddie, careful! you're out of your element!" And when she gave "swivel-tree" to the Princess, her side whispered, "Go easy! Do you know what it is? Make her define it." They branched over the country. May met her Jonah on the mountains.
"The factions begin to divide themselves," said Carleton, "betwixt his Excellency and Monsieur Barneveld as heads who join to this present difference their ancient quarrels. Uytenbogaert repeatedly offered, however, to resign his functions and to leave the Hague. "He was always ready to play the Jonah," he said.
It was like Jonah and the whale, except the swallowing, which spunky Tommy promised should be his office, if the Federal Government didn't toe the mark. Such was the voice of the Charleston district.