Have you ever known anyone with a thoroughly disagreeable attitude? There are some people who, if opportunity were to knock, would complain about the racket. They would re-write the twenty-third psalm to read like this, "My cup runneth over, what a mess."

Senator Sam Ervin told about a man in his home state who did not agree with anybody about anything. The man found that cabbage didn't agree with him, the Senator says, and from that day forward wouldn't eat anything else.

Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, must have been a cabbage eater. He was a most disagreeable character. At times he was stubborn and even rebellious. THE FIRST THING THAT STRIKES US IN THIS STORY IS JONAH'S RELUCTANCE TO DO WHAT GOD ASKED HIM TO DO.

Jonah was a prophet. God told Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh to h…