74 OPPOSITION AND CONDUCT 



enlightened Catholics, and manifestly opposed 

 to scriptural examples, and the divine command 

 of the Founder of Christianity himself. The 

 Eunuch was reading the scriptures, searching 

 for, antl inquiring after divine truth, when Philip 

 received a commission from heaven to " join 

 himself to his chariot." The Saviour gave an 

 authoritative command to the Jews to " search 

 the scriptures" and it is recorded of Timothy 

 that u from a child he had known the Holy 

 Scriptures" They are the means of affording 

 that instruction which man's wisdom cannot 

 teach, while they bear every mark of a divine 

 revelation, in a manner worthy of God, and 

 plain to the meanest capacity. 



I had given a French Testament to one of 

 the Canadians, whom I married to a Swiss 

 Protestant, which excited the farther active 

 prejudice of the Catholic priest. He called on 

 him, and requested that he might have it, but 

 the Canadian objected, saying, that as his wife 

 was a Protestant, she wished to read it. He 

 then asked to borrow it, promising to return the 

 Testament in a few days, and took it home with 

 him. I had written on the inside of the cover — 

 The man's name. 

 From the British and Foreign Bible Society. 

 " Sondez les Ecritures." St. Jean, v. 39. 



