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A Fashionable Female Fight--flinging Scripture At Each Other

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Day
4
Month
March
Year
1881
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Public Domain
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"Are we not bavirig a delightfitl outpouriog oí' the spirit?" asked a VOOBt lady teacher in oto f the Brooklyn Sunday .schools ot' snot her young lady teacher, n the two met on Fulton streel yesterday. "Isi'l ii perfectly aplendid? Mr. Uraoe, onr raperintaodMt, Md m Wedaesdfey thal :in awlul lotsof precious souls had been gal hered into the f'old. Isn't it delieionn? " U's too sweet lor anything. It inakes me f'eel iuite P.salni xlvii., 1. Our ,-u.por intendent, Mr. Devine, say.s he lias never ktiown a more refroshing season; and he thinks the inanilestation hasnotyet reached its height. " "That's jast what Mr. Orace .says," replied the otlier, " and he really I. Timo thy, iit., 2, if ever a inao m lie told tih' Tliursday, nearly the whole vineysrd was ripe and ready lor the reapers, and it is quite so." "Justwhat Mr. Devine thinks. As I said, he came to our house vVednecday, and, liaving Romans xvi., I6'd, he went on to teil us how an especial revelatin had been vouchsaf'ed to little Johney White, who repeated 480 verses, soine" ot' them real long, Sunday moriiiiií?. I nevcr heard of such a tbíng. "Oh! that'snothin)r," sniffed the otlier. "In our Sunday school A bram Willet; only six j-ears old, repeated 840 verses, and it tuok hita all day. Mr. Graco says he is 1 1 ¦ Matthew v., 4Se-"t boy in Brooklya." '1 OUH' II l) wiimmit," uij ttic fint "1 tbink th. 're is soine ('olossiani in., ',i in that statement, and y.m wil) buve tu I. Thes. v., 21 bcfore 1 ever cao believeyou again." "Wby, you little bunobof Oalatians v., 201" xetumed f li; other. To hear you talk one would tliink you were Hebrew i., 4. I teil you he did say the verses, and if' you deny it you are the last clauss of l'rovcrl.s xiv., r, And I don't believe that vour supeiintendent ever Romans xvi., I DM you either. He's gottoo much MOM." ;'I teil you he did, and II. The.xs. v. 26 d bim?" screamed the first. ''You are tiothing but Proverbs ix., 13, and vou will find your-elt ootne up with in l'roverbs xix., 29, CM I fom unregenerate tliinu, how I would like to Matthew xxvi. 67 you!" " You'd better not try it" retorted the other. " If you did you'd the fiist clause of Acts v., 10, quicker than a candle could scorch a feather. You can't humbug aie with any long storiesabout abundant grace in your old'sabbath school, for there's where they make you I. Corinthians xiv., 34, and I know it. The best thing yon can do is to go home and the last clause of Matttiew vi., 17." By this time both young ladies were the first clause of Luke vi. , 1 1 , and it appeared ' though the secular constabulary would be called In. '" ( )h, you iiitu f rlua.;..j u eut " Oh, you last word in Matthew ix., 32 !" " Oh ! you nasty scrihe and pharisee!" shouted the other. "Oh ! you generation of vipera and scorpions. Oh! you .Matthew vii., 6" And witli thee purely Christian expressions cooveyed in the approved roethod, thy both arose and went thence.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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