BIBLICAL COURSING.
Love at first sight in church, with scriptural commentary, is illustrated in the local columns of the Albany 11 Argus.” One Sunday a beautiful young gentleman happened to have a seat in a pew adjoining one in which a lovely young lady was sitting. He was seized with a violent passion for the fair stranger and resolved to propose to her then and there. So he handed her a Bible with a pin stuck in the following test :—“ 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.” (John ii., 5 v.) The lady returned the book, pointing to Euth ii., 10 v : —“ Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldst take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger 1 ” He handed it back with his finger on John iii, 13 I:—“I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee. But I trust that I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face.” As the result of this interview it is said that a marriage will take place in a month or two.
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1815, 15 December 1879, Page 2
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