THE MASTER’S ASS

A Haifa (Israel) policeman, who knew his Bible, got on the trail of a gang of smugglers. They used an ass-drawn caravan to escape. The policemen managed to capture some of the asses, though the smugglers got away. The clever officer let the beasts of burden go without food for several days and then he turned them loose. And just as he predicted from Isaiah 1:3, “the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib,” the starving animals led the police directly to the smuggler’s hide-out!

—World Christian Digest

[Reproduced with permission from Encylopedia of 15,000 Illustrations, by Paul Lee Tan,
Communications, Inc., Dallas, TX, 1998, #847]

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