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Show A I'EKSIAX PAUAItIC THE fcTOKV OF KHAWA-AIl AMI KADUAir, AND WHAT AMIIITIOM jijiocoirr Tiicst to. Khawajah was the stupijot man hiallKzroom. Ilehaduocnemles, so It was left to his friends to say of hlm: "A stupider head never car rled a turban." Moreover, his wife said so, and who should knew better than Kadijah Now , Kadljah w as as ambitious as woman per was. and a sharp-tcugued as tho wa ambitious. Tho one hope of her life was that htr husband should become a priest, in order that she might be called "priestess." "Hut," he would say, "how can I become a priest? I don't kuow enough." "Sovr, Allah protect your stu Id pate," she would cry out, you can learn, can't ou?" So he set himself him-self diligently at his hooks, but It was hard work, and when the time for his ordination had come all he had learned waa, "I hal a chicken, my chicken flew up and then it Hew down. Glory be to God." "You see how stupid I am" said he to his wife In desalr. Itiit Ka-diJalL. Ka-diJalL. encouraged him, sa)iug, ''llutpucu tiecome a priest and no one will miud what'ou say." So lie iu ordained and became a priest, and would etau I up hi his tougrobe, anJioldliigup his arms would cry ina Ioiuf voice-, over and oerogaln, '! liad'a chicken, my chicken flew up, and then it Hew down sgaiu," aud thin lie would say louuer than 1eIort:, ' Glory be to God!" While all the lieople declared de-clared tbe) had ncier had a prlent w Imi talked so tru!) an J so wisely before. Then Kadljah said to her husband hus-band in trluipbf; "What did L tell jou?" liy and by the news came to Ex-room Ex-room that the bishop was about to pay them a visit; then Khawajah was iu despair, aud said to Kadljah: "What shall I do?" "Have no fear," answered his wife, "do as you have always done. Your people will piotect you." So the bishop came and sat tu the congregation, whilelvhawajali luld up lib arms before the peop'o and cried in a loud voice: "1 had a chlekeu, in) chicken tlew up and then it flew down. Glory be to Hearing these Impious words, the Ilishop rose and woul J have struck tlie priest for his impiety, but Khawajah appealed to his I-coile, "Am I not your own priest? Ha.e I not bapti-e-d your living and buried ) our dead?" Then all tho peeple rose up and said ho was their own 1 riest, and that he had baptised their living and buried their dead, and had siwkeu to thcai more truly thau any other roan, and, lajlng their hands on the Hishop, they put him out of the church, aud would have slain him had not Khawajah iuteifrred. I5ct the Ilishop went back to the Council and told what tevere things had hapiened to hlm in Ezroom, and the Council wondered how the) shoul I remove this wicked priest. Finally one Bishop rose and said: "I w HI undertake not only to punish I him and put him out of his church, t 45MaManMifcgBBBrtMSSBSBI liutalsolobrinzToualliir iluckid from his Leant." bo the new IlUhop, color to Ez-room, Ez-room, walked Into the congregation, and when be heard Khawajah recite re-cite ovcrandoveragaiti .l had a chicken, my cblcktn tlew- up and then it llew down, Glory be loQod' he rose and said: "Truly, never did Priest speak W wisely as tills Priest," and, tiulUng forth his hand as he salu these words, he plucked a hair trom the Pri.st'a beard. Now, this la the greatest Indignity that can hapten to one of this order, and to Khawajah, turning fiercely on the new Bishop, tald: "How dare you touch my bard?" "Uecause," answered the other calmly, putting the lu'r into a little box as he spoke, ''the nair from the face of so good and so wise a man will surely carry blessings with It wherever It goes. I shall take this to other churches, that it may bticg a blessing to them also." Then all the people rose up and begged a hair from the beard of their priest, that it might bring them a blessing, and each one reverently plucked a hair from hi face and departed. Hut when tlie list man had It ft, behold the face of Khawsj ih was as smooth as the face of a little child! "Dog of an unbeliever," cried the nishop, turnip" upon him as soou as they ere alone, "how dare you thus l rotane thla hoi) calling? Do you not know that a beardless man may not enter the pnestlncd?" Andla)lng ioknt hands upon him, he tore the rolx- from his figure. Khawajah called loudly upon his JojIe, but they had all departed, and secure iu their blessing, bless-ing, willingly chose another man in hit place. Then Kadljah said to him! "Xow see what you have brought me to." Evenin? Sun. |