ADVANTAGES OF BIBLEREADING.
A younc gentleman familiar with the Scriptures, happening to ait in a pew with a young lady for whom he conceived a violent attachment, made his proposal in this way. He politely handed his Bible, open, with a pin stuck iu the following text3ml Epistle of John, v., 5; ‘‘And I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, hut that which we had from the beginning that we love one another.” She returned it, pointing to tiie second chapter of Ruth, verse 10:—’‘Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, ‘ Why have I found grace iu thine eyes that thou shoaldst take knowledge of me, seeing that lam a stranger ?’ ” He returned the book, pointing to the 13th verse of the 3rd Epistle of John :—“ Having many things to write unto you, I would not W'rite with paper and ink, but I trust to come unto you and speak, face to face, that our joy may he full.” From this interview a marriage took place in the ensuing month in the same church.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2391, 5 November 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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190ADVANTAGES OF BIBLEREADING. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2391, 5 November 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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