Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . onster enough. They say sailors arecredulous — but they areonly reverent. The strangeand wondrous sights theysee wake their simple soulsto the truth that to Godnothing , and to the wiseman nothing seems, impos-sible. When I asked a col-lege-bred friend the otherday if there could be a sea- serpent, he said, No,and changed the subject,not caring to permit his great mind to dwell uponimpossibilities. When I put the same questionto an old whaling skipper, he said, Dont see why there shouldnt be; Ive seenstranger things in my time.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . onster enough. They say sailors arecredulous — but they areonly reverent. The strangeand wondrous sights theysee wake their simple soulsto the truth that to Godnothing , and to the wiseman nothing seems, impos-sible. When I asked a col-lege-bred friend the otherday if there could be a sea- serpent, he said, No,and changed the subject,not caring to permit his great mind to dwell uponimpossibilities. When I put the same questionto an old whaling skipper, he said, Dont see why there shouldnt be; Ive seenstranger things in my time. And so he had. A shrewd preacher once toldme he thought faith was very much a matterof experience, and I believe he was right. Theysay the born-blind find it difficult to believe in aGod. But let us come tA facts; of which there arcso many that I shall pay no attention to mererumors. It may or may not be true, what Dio-dorus Siculus relates of a great Egyptian sea-serpent, GO feet long, which was brought alive toAlexandria, as a present to Ptolemy II.; and. 180 HAKPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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