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Ernest expressed his readiness to be questioned.
"Then," said the tinker, "give me the story of the Resurrection of
Jesus Christ as told in St. John's Gospel."
I am sorry to say that Ernest mixed up the four accounts in, a
deplorable manner; he even made the angel come down and roll away
the stone and sit upon it. He was covered with confusion when the
tinker first told him without the book of some of his many
inaccuracies, and then verified his criticisms by referring to the New
Testament itself.
"Now," said Mr. Shaw good-naturedly, "I am an old man and you are
a young one, so perhaps you'll not mind my giving you a piece of
advice. I like you, for I believe you mean well, but you've been
real bad brought up, and I don't think you have ever had so much as
a chance yet. You know nothing of our side of the question, and I have
just shown you that you do not know much more of your own, but I think
you will make a kind of Carlyle sort of a man some day. Now go
upstairs and read the accounts of the Resurrection correctly without
mixing them up, and have a clear idea of what it is that each writer
tells us, then if you feel inclined to pay me another visit I shall be
glad to see you, for I shall know you have made a good beginning and
mean business.
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