A KAREN woman offered herself for baptism. After the usual examination, I inquired whether she would give up her ornaments for Christ. It was an unexpected blows. I explained the spirit of the Gospel. I appealed to her own consciousness of vanity. I read to her the apostle's prohibition.
She looked again and again at her handsome necklace,—she wore but one,—and then with an air of modest decision, that would adorn, beyond all outward adornment, any of my sisters whom I have the honor of addressing, she quietly took it off, saying, "I love Christ more than this."—Dr. Judson.