responsible to God for the souls I may lead astray. They honestly
believe this."

"Don't you know that when Satan has entered into a man, he can make
him honestly believe anything?"

"And you think it is Satan that keeps the other churches from
seeing this is the only right one?"

"I do! And beware, young man, that Satan does not get into YOU"

"He must be in me already." There was silence again, then the lad
continued.

"All this is becoming a great trouble to me. It interferes with my
studies--takes my interest out of my future. I come to you then.
You are my pastor. Where is the truth--the reason--the proof--the
authority? Where is the guiding LAW in all this? I must find THE
LAW and that quickly."

There was no gainsaying his trouble: it expressed itself in his
eyes, voice, entire demeanor. The pastor was not seeing any of
these things. Here was a plain, ignorant country lad who had
rejected his logic and who apparently had not tact enough at this
moment to appreciate his own effrontery. In the whole sensitiveness
of man there is no spot so touchy as the theological.

"Have you a copy of the New Testament?"

It was the tone in which the school-master of old times said,