Mind Your Prepositions

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 13, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 26.

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Mind Your Prepositions.

A young pastor, who had been favored with a collegiate education, conducted a Bible class of intelligent young ladies in one of our New England Sunday-schools. The subject of the lesson was the marriage—the scene of Christ's first miracle. "What was the name of the bride?" was the question proposed to the class. Each looked at the other with surprise, as her name did not appear on the record; and they were expecting an addition to their stock of knowledge, when the teacher from his researches should furnish them with the name of the lady. As no one in the class could answer the question, he very seriously told them her name was "Cana!" He had always read it marriage of Cana in Gallilee, instead of marriage in Cana of Gallilee, mistaking the name of the place for the name of the bride.—Christian at Work