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An ancient speculator

--The Religious Herald says any one who consults Mark VI. 27, in the Great Testament, will find that when Herod which to have the Baptist beheaded in prison he sent a speculator to discharge the cruel . The inspired writer used the very word in its Greek form--speculator.

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