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Show FOUNO IN THE BIBLE. Quotation That Effectually Squelched Fresh Young Man. finch (). I'enteieat. who fell nut nf orthodoxy several y-nrs ano. nndsln-o thin lias been climbing lalinrlouaiy and not very eft tuully ba-k SKinn, told nf a story that waa s-nt lu his Twentieth Century by a contributor. Althoui-h the tailnt wua aitalnst his atheistic opinions. I'-nliHt was sur-n-leutly " II li.-l 11 f tn h ta force. It s-eina Hint a curtain I'araon llmid loe of K-ritil. ky wna il, tiilueil one wet olhl nt a auuill tin urn In the w llila of Iho Weal. Among HuMe who Ruthor-d about the aluve wua a youth who Rienlly "(am li d himself." and wh-n the tulk tiirn-d iipun niiittera of re-IIrIoii, re-IIrIoii, vine iiti-innce to aomo very heretical views. "Why Is H." anid he pomiHiualy, "why Is it Hint .1, sua illiln't anawer some of the hon-sl. brainy fellows ol bis tlmo some wiung thinker like mo?" "My friend." suld the dominie, quiet l "you se-m to havo read the lllble to littles purlaiae." "How so?'' Interrupted Iho young In fldel. "l vo rend (he lllble. and there's nothing In It like Unit ' "Oh, yea. there la." answered the parson; "you'll find the quotation In John, twillth ihapiir. fourteenth "And what does It say?" nsKed the youth, scornfully. "It sna." replied (loodloo, cnlmly, H 'And J-hib, w h-n ho found a young ass, sat ther-on.' " New York Timea. |