Friday, February 22, 2013

Interestingly

It is said that a certain American Baptist missionary in China, Edward Clemens Lord (1817-1887), had six wives. However, he was not a polygamist. It seems that after his first wife died he married her sister, a widow, and after she died another widow and so on until he had married six wives. And whose husband will he be in the resurrection, some may be asking cheekily? To the modern mind it might seem that such a marital record would invite police investigation. However, I don't know. Sometimes truth is just stranger than fiction.