Eureka Reporter | 1904-08-19 | Page 6 | Misquotation

M on two bible students ft ere discussing the number of quotations often attenb buted to the scriptures which really are taken from secular worl s of them had just related the story of the wash woman who found so much corn fort in the verse grin and bear ft which she declared was from the ble when the other replied vall there are other people that are sw posed to know more about the bible than the wash woman did who mahe just as ridiculous mistakes just last week I 1 heard a missionary from the italian quarters of this city address a woman s home mission so biety after relating some of her trials she said that she could not see that the situation is growing much better but she concluded the bible tells us that they also serve who only stand and wait and that s what I 1 m doing now those words are not in the new testament at all they are a direct quotation from milton s sonnet on his blindness philadelphia press