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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 10, 1881

THE WRONG BOOK.

Our Episcopal friends, among other good deeds at the Convention, consecrated a bishop for the Indians and other rough settlers of the very far West; apropos of which may be told the following: A Methodist minister having many years ago been sent as missionary to the same rather tough-hearted people, found an old, very old Indian, who could read, to whom he gave a copy of the New Testament. After the noble red man had read it through, he expressed a wish to be baptized. The missionary accordingly procured a bowl of water, and was about to baptize him, when the noble red man asked, "What you going to do with that?"

"Baptize you," replied the clergyman.

"No deep enough for Indian: take 'em to river."

The missionary explained that "that is not our practice;" to which the noble red person replied:—

"You give me wrong book, then; me read 'em through."

The ceremony was postponed.—Exchange.