title: Digging Deeper: Questions, Controversies, and Conundrums From God's Word
author: Charlie Read
description: Charlie Read is a resident of Wild, Wonderful West Virginia and has been a disciple of Jesus Christ since 1973. He published a non-denominational Christian newsletter called The New Jerusalem Times for many years, and most of these articles are taken from that source. Read was also a professional musician and music instructor for many years, and has recorded several CDs of guitar music. Besides studying the Bible and writing, he enjoys reading - particularly history, biography, American and world literature, Bible commentaries, sci-fi/fantasy, and politics.
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  The Wreck of the Golden Mary  
    
  
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  # The Wreck of the Golden Mary
  
  
  ### Charles Dickens
  
  
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  I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have
  
  
  encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and
  
  
  metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed
  
  
  such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject
  
  
  is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the
  
  
  course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and
  
  
  although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say,
  
  
  to have an intelligent interest in most things.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A person might suppose, from reading the above, that I am in the
  
  
  habit of holding forth about number o