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SHE KNEW THE BIBLE

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 19.

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SHE KNEW THE BIBLE.

A Romish priest asked the daughter of an ex-Papist why she didn't attend catechism class any longer. She replied that her father had forbidden her to enter his church any more. The priest told her she should obey him, not her father. But she replied, "We are taught in the Bible to honor our father and mother."
"You have no business to read the Bible," said the priest.
"But, sir, our Saviour told us to search the Scriptures."
"That was only to the Jews, and not to children, and you don't understand it."
"But Paul said to Timothy, that from a child he knew the Scriptures."
"Oh," said his reverence, "Timothy was then being trained for a bishop and was taught by the authorities of the church."
But she told him that Timothy's mother and grandmother did the blessed work. Whereupon this priest of antichrist turned away saying she knew enough of the Bible to poison a whole parish.—Primitive Catholic.