So if the characters from Bonanza were at a modern supermarket, and Hoss took one of those tiny wet towels for cleaning your basket handle, that would be a Cartwright with a Cart Wipe, right?
Well, you have to clean it off where something leaked on it from the last shopper and spoiled, else your cart’s ripe.
“We have been learning about how powerful the kings and queens were in Biblical times. But there is a higher power. Who can tell me what it is?”
Tommy blurted out, “I know! Aces.”
The Sunday school teacher was carefully explaining the story of Elijah the Prophet and the false prophets of Baal.
She explained how Elijah built the altar, put wood upon it, cut the steer in pieces and laid it upon the altar.
And then Elijah commanded the people of God to fill four barrels of water and pour it over the altar. He had them do this four times.
"Now, said the teacher, “can anyone in the class tell me why the Lord would have Elijah pour water over the steer on the altar?”
A little girl in the back of the room raised her hand with great enthusiasm. “To make the gravy.”
