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Show AS IT APPEARED TO EBEN Surely Was Something of a Miracle at Event Was Explained by the Minister. Here is one of George W. Cable's good southern stories: "In a town in Georgia lives an old colored fellow who is a real thorn in the side of the local ministers, for the old fellow is always asking embarrassing embarrass-ing questions of them touching mooted theological points," says Mr. Cable. "One day old Eben had a long and earnest discussion with his pastor in reference to just what constituted a miracle. The minister found it no easy matter to make his ideas clear to Eben. " Tpose, now,' said the preacher, 'dat de greatest of all de miracles was dat of de loaves and fishes. You 'member, of co'ce, dat dere was five thousand loaves and two thousand i fishes which was eaten by the twelve apostles.' " 'Sho', I 'member,' replied old Eben, with a smile, 'an' it always 'peared to me dat de miracle was dat dey didn't bust!'" The Sunday Magazine. |