4 THE LIGHT OF DAT 



again. He had just been reading the story of 

 Elijah and the false prophets. He told me the 

 story, and when he came to where the fire came 

 down from heaven and consumed Elijah's offering, 

 his emotion overcame him, and he hroke down com- 

 pletely. He no more doubted these things, he no 

 more doubted the literal truth of every passage in 

 the Bible, than he did his own existence. 



How impossible for me to read the Bible as 

 father or Jerry did, or to feel any interest in the 

 questions which were so vital to them ; not because 

 I have hardened my heart against these things, but 

 mainly because I was born forty years later than 

 they were, with different tastes and habits of mind. 

 The time spirit has wrought many changes in men's 

 views, and I have seen the world with other eyes 

 and through other mediums. 



