A young woman, upon an offer of marriage, consulted an old friend before making her momentous decision. He asked her if her husband that was to be was a christian. To be truthful, she had to say, “no; but,” she added, “he wasn’t really bad, not worse than other young men who hadn’t thought of religion; it was only that he had never given it a thought! His thoughtlessness need not be any hindrance to her.” Her adviser’s answer was blunt, but it told. “If he is not a child of God,” said the old man, “he must be a child of the devil; there is no half and half: and if he is the latter, and you marry him, look out, my girl! you’ll have a deal of trouble with your father-in-law.” This decided the case; the engagement was broken off, and the young woman saved from the misery of an unequal yoke. E.