Show 7 t A COURTSHIP IN SCRIPTURE More Proof That Nothing Is Impossible Impossi-ble to Cupid If this story had come from Topeka wo should have been more readily Inclined In-clined to believe It because Topekas familiarity with all things Biblical Is proverbial Hut It Is a good story even If It Isnt Its llrst appearance on earth and It Is told thus by tho Jewell County Monitor A young gentleman at church conceived a most sudden and violent passion for a young lady In the next pew and felt desirous of entering Into a courtship on tho spot but the place not suiting a formal declaration dec-laration the exigency suggested the following plan lIe politely handed his fair neighbor a Hiblo open with a pin stuck In tho following text second sec-ond epistle of John verse B And now I beseech thee lady not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee but that which we had from the beginning that we love one another an-other Sho returned It with the following fol-lowing second chapter of Ruth verse 10 Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground and said J unto him Why have 1 found favor in thine eyes that thou shouldst take notice of me seeing I am a stranger to you He returned tho book pointing point-ing to verse 12 of the third epistle of John Having many things to write unto you but I trust to como unto you I and speak face to face From the above interview the marriage took place the followlnc weok Kansas City Journal I |