“IT is most important that we should read good books, and above all, the Bible, which teaches us of God, and shows us the way to heaven,” said a shrewd-looking old peasant, with a quick eye to us, the other day, as we were giving some books to his neighbor.
“Quite so; it does show us the way to heaven, friend,” we replied; “but have you got over the stile yet?”
He proceeded with a further general dissertation upon the importance of religion in the abstract; so, thinking he did not catch the allusion to the stile, we said, “You did not, perhaps, understand us, Are your sins forgiven? Are your feet on the way to heaven?”
“I understood ye fast enough,” the old man replied, fixing his eye upon us, “and when you come so particular, I tell you—no, I have not got over the stile.”
How is it with you, reader?