Question. Do you think the stories in the Bible exaggerated?
Answer. "I dare say the numbers are immensely exaggerated."
Question. Do you think that God upheld polygamy?
Answer. "The truth of which simply is, that four thousand years ago polygamy existed among the Jews, as everywhere else on earth then, and even their prophets did not come to the idea of its being wrong. But what is there to be indignant about in that?"
Question. And so you really wonder why any man should be indignant at the idea that God upheld and sanctioned that beastliness called polygamy?
Answer. "What is there to be indignant about in that?"
Fifth. Prof. Swing.
Question. What is your idea of the Bible?
Answer. "I think it is a poem."
Sixth. Rev. Dr. Ryder.