THE following is extracted from the journal of one of our Italian colporteurs: —
“On the 23rd of December I was going along by the wall near the sea, when I saw a group of about twenty porters, to whom I offered a New Testament. One of them purchased a copy, whilst others took only a Gospel. Whilst I was speaking seriously to them as to the use to be made of the little volumes, a respectable-looking man came up, and in a contemptuous manner said to me, ‘And so you have come to blind the eyes of these men. Do you not know that they have no need of your teaching? They have that of the priests.’
“I replied, ‘If they have that of the priests, how is it that they know nothing of the Word of God?’
“And you,’ said he, in what college have you studied?’
“‘I will tell you,’ I replied, ‘if you will tell me in what college the Apostles studied.’
“He replied, ‘Jesus Christ taught them.’
“ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘the same Saviour has taught me by His Word; and so I was saying to these young men that out of Jesus Christ there is no salvation.’”