An Infidel Blunder—St. Paul's Bay.
We suppose this is the bay in the northern part of the celebrated Bay of Naples, near where Paul and his fellow prisoners landed at Puteoli, when on their way to Rome. We lately heard a very curious blunder that an infidel sea captain made in regard to Paul's voyage. This Infidel was conversing with a clergyman, and expressing his disbelief of the Bible, because there were so many errors in it. The clergyman wished him to mention one. “Well,” said he, “there is one statement in the account of Paul's voyage, that is enough to convince me that the Bible can't be true—that it is a fiction.” “What is it?” inquired the clergyman. “Why, it says, ‘And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days. And from thence we fetched a compass aboard and came to Rhegium.’” “Now,” said he, “that was long before the compass was discovered, and that shows that the Bible is not true, but that it was entirely made up.” Now every Sabbath-school scholar can see that this infidel made a gross blunder in reading the Bible. It does not say that they “fetched a compass aboard,” but that they “fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium,” that is, they made a circuit from Syracuse and came to Rhegium. Now, children, be careful how you read the Bible. How many have doubts about the word of God, on account of their own blunders in reading it.—Sel.