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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 25, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 4.

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Dodging

THERE is a little girl in Chicago who can not read as yet, but she insists on having her Testament in hand like the others in family worship, and when it comes her turn to read she recites some verse which she has committed to memory, usually, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord.” One day she disobeyed her mother, and her father, rebuking her for it, said, “You know that the Bible says, ‘Children, obey your parents in the Lord.’” Looking him straight in the face, she answered, “Well, I am not going to say that any more. I am going to say, ‘God is love.’”
She is not the only sinner in Chicago who dodges the passages that hit them hard, and tries to find refuge in some that seem to allow dodging-room.—Christian Standard.