Show A MORAL AND NICE BOOK what a bonns glatly thought of the new testament it was once the good fortune of a harpers bazar writer to read in the island of fayal a letter just written by a young lady of portuguese english birth who had been reading the kew testament for the first time it was worth while to see a letter for joany persons must have felt first or last with thoreau that it would be a delightful tiling for anyone to encounter those wonderful narratives as a fresh discovery in years apart from all the too familiar associations of sunday school and sermon such as any rate was this young ladys experience and her statement of the result was at least a little astonishing she wrote ta her half foreign english to an american friend in these words did you ever happen to read a book called the new testament if not I 1 advise you to do so J have just been reading it one of these days and I 1 find it a very moral and nice book |