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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 12, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 22

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THE INFIDEL SILENCED.—

Bishop C—— was traveling in a stage coach, while visiting through his diocese, when a pert upstart of a fellow began to berate the Bible. The good Bishop was closely muffled up in the corner, with his hat drawn over his eyes, and apparently asleep. The young skeptic was dilating on the inconsistency of the Bible with the recent discoveries of science, when the Bishop roused himself, and asked him to specify some instance of such inconsistency. The ready response was, “The first chapter of Genesis.” “Ah!” said the Bishop, who had discovered the shallowness of the young man, “have you ever read the explanation of that account of the creation in the 25th chapter of the book of Jaazaniah?” “Yes,” said the man, “I have read it carefully;” and, in my opinion, it utterly fails of meeting the real point!” The laugh that followed silenced the discomfited infidel, and the Bishop retired.