PROVING IT FROM THE BIBLE.
While a naval officer was inspecting one of the schools in the island of Barbadoes, containing two hundred negro boys and girls, a sign was made by one of the children, by holding up his hand, intimating that he wished to speak to the master. On going up to the child, who was somewhat more than eight years old, the master inquired what was the matter. “Massa,” he replied, with a look of horror and indignation which the officer said he should never forget, and pointing to a little boy of the same age, who sat beside him,—“Massa, this boy says he does not believe in the resurrection.” “That is very bad,” said the master; “but do you, my little fellow,” addressing the young informer, “believe in the resurrection yourself?” “But can you prove it from the Bible?” “Yes, massa; Jesus says, ‘I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, tho he were dead, yet shall he live,’ and in another place, ‘Because I live, ye shall live also.’” The master added, “Can you prove it from the Old Testament also?” “Yes; for Job says, ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and tho after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.’ And David says, in one of his psalms, ‘I shall be satisfied when I awake with Thy likeness.’” “But are you sure these passages are in the Bible? Here is a Bible; point them out to us.” The little lad found all the passages, and read them aloud, to the surprise and delight of the visitors.—Christian Herald.