How Did It Get There? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 3, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 38.

How Did It Get There?

By Editor

We mean that fish which swallowed Jonah. An esteemed contemporary, in telling the youth a story about Jonah, makes the fish a mighty helper to Jonah in reaching Nineveh from the waters of the Mediterranean. We are told that the fish carried Jonah clear around to Nineveh. A unique specimen this fish must have been; instead of going around Africa, it seems to have been anticipatory of nineteenth century engineering. It "sailed past Suez, through the Red Sea, around Arabia, up the Persian Gulf, and into the high waters of the Tigris," on which was situate Nineveh, a distance of about 4,500 miles, traveling at the rate of more than sixty miles an hour, day and night, without rest. Now, please tell us more. Was there an ancient Suez canal of which history says naught? Or did this denizen of the sea possess the power of land locomotion? If the latter, how do we know that he did not proceed directly across country to Nineveh? We would like more information.