Can You Trust the Grapevine? - Bill Butler - June 1982

Bill Butler

How should we view unofficial information that comes to us through several people? YOU may have heard about how a certain military message became garbled in transmission. The story goes something like this: It seems an important colonel gave the following set of instructions to his second-in-command: "Major Healy, at 0900 tomorrow there will be an eclipse of the sun, something that doesn't occur every day. Have the company fall in on the street In fatigues to see this rare phenomenon. I will explain it to the men. If it should rain, we won't be able to see the eclipse, so have the men muster in the gym." The major, in turn, passed this on to Captain Drew: - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library