After the service Gretchen waited to speak to Pastor Brandt.
“Everything in the Bible,” she asked anxiously, “is it always right?”
“Ja,” the herr pastor affirmed, “the Bible always gives right.”
“About everything?”
“Ja, about everything.”
“The Bible says that Jacob had two wives and that Solomon had seven hundred wives. Is it right for men to have many wives?”
“It was right in Bible days,” affirmed the pastor guardedly. “In those times many wives were needed to populate the land.”
“Many wives are needed now to populate the land,” asserted Gretchen. “Why should not each man in Eisen take now ten wives?”
“It is against the law,” declared the pastor.
“It is not against Bible law.”