Mr. World and Miss Church-Member
Mr. World and Miss Church-Member
A twentieth century allegory
The leading moral truths are developed in the memorable journey ofMiss Church-Member upon the Broad Highway in company with the politeand yet fiendish Mr. World. In this lifelike journey the two companionscome in contact with many of Satan's up-to-date schemes, and witnesshis far-extended operations in many a wicked realm. In the descriptionsof all these things we have endeavored to be suggestive rather thanexhaustive, for we have withheld the almost infinite details and broughtto light only a mere synopsis of the panorama as seen from the loftysummit.
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u have covered the whole field of my intention," he courteously replied. "I sincerely wish to mend my ways, but there are certain things I must first overcome. How much better I could do this if one like you, in whom I have supreme confidence, would but journey at my side. Will you not do the work of a good missionary and, like Christ, adapt yourself to my level, that I may, by your uplifting influence, be drawn into a nobler life, and even have your companionship as I go up to the Highway of your King?"
Miss Church-Member, being of a sympathetic nature and of strong missionary proclivities, refused to heed her many counselors who feared for her safety, and actually stepped still farther from her wonted path and journeyed at the side of Mr. World with the desire to compass his conversion. But her conscience, at first, troubled her and her feet moved with a suspicious tread.
In this nervous, half confiding and half shrinking mood, she leaned lightly upon his arm, ever turning a deaf ear to the en
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