“Oh, yes. What I always say is, ‘It’s better to have the whole Bible than a Bible full of holes.’ ”
“Why, that’s a real thought, Brother Fislinger. I must remember that, to tell any of these alleged higher critics, if I ever meet any! ‘Bible whole—not Bible full of holes.’ Oh, that’s a fine thought, and cleverly expressed. You made it up?”
“Well, not exactly.”
“I see, I see. Well, that’s splendid. Now of course you believe in the premillennial coming—I mean the real, authentic, genuwine, immediate, bodily, premillennial coming of Jesus Christ?”
“Oh, yes, sure.”
“And the virgin birth?”
“Oh, you bet.”
“That’s splendid! Of course there are doctors who question whether the virgin birth is quite in accordance with their experience of obstetrics, but I tell those fellows, ‘Look here! How do I know it’s true? Because it says so in the Bible, and if it weren’t true, do you suppose it would say so in the Bible?’ That certainly shuts them up! They have precious little to say after that!”
By this time a really beautiful, bounteous fellowship was flowing between Eddie and the doctor, and they were looking with pity on the embarrassed faces of the two heretics left out in the cold. Dr. Lefferts tickled his beard and crooned:
“And of course, Brother Fislinger, you believe in infant damnation.”