particular portion.
"I would urge you," he kindly advised, "that if you feel aught of
headache or heartache, through excessive reading, to close the book
at once."
[Illustration: Miss Church-member was reading the Bible to her companion
when there appeared to them an interpreter who was like unto an angel
of light.]
She made no reply, but to his surprise was now deeply engaged in the
perusal of the seventh chapter of Matthew.
"I have heard that some parts of that book are very interesting," he
said in his good natured way. "Will you not read aloud to me?"
With a return of the old passion for his conversion she gladly complied
and read the whole chapter while they continued gliding smoothly along.
An interesting discussion ensued, during the course of which there
joined them one who was like unto an angel of light.
After hearing his smooth sentences of general Bible-knowledge, Miss
Church-Member exclaimed: "Who art thou, and how didst thou gain so
great a knowledge of this Book?"
"I am but a harmless creature of the air, going whither I will. I have
studied that Book through all the changes of time and understand every
part of it. I would, even now, make any sentence as clear as light to
thee."
"And thinkest thou that this part is true?" hopefully asked Miss
Church-Member as she raised the open Bible and pointed to the chapter
she had just read.
"Every sentence is true, but in reading it there is grave danger of
misapprehension. Didst thou have difficulty with any particular part
of the chapter?"
"With verses thirteen and fourteen," she replied.
The angelic interpreter then read them in a fine resonant voice.
"'Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in
hereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth
unto life, and few there be that find it.'"
"If these words are really true," quickly commented Miss Church-Member,
"we must be traveling in the wrong way. Does it not appear so?" she
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