"
"What do you mean?" said Ernest, more and more astonished, but more and
more feeling that he was at least in the hands of a man who had definite
ideas.
"Your question shows me that you have never read your Bible. A more
unreliable book was never put upon paper. Take my advice and don't read
it, not till you are a few years older, and may do so safely."
"But surely you believe the Bible when it tells you of such things as
that Christ died and rose from the dead? Surely you believe this?" said
Ernest, quite prepared to be told that Pryer believed nothing of the
kind.
"I do not believe it, I know it."
"But how--if the testimony of the Bible fails?"
"On that of the living voice of the Church, which I know to be infallible
and to be informed of Christ himself."
CHAPTER LIII
The foregoing conversation and others like it made a deep impression upon
my hero. If next day he had taken a walk with Mr Hawke, and heard what
he had to say on the other side, he would have been just as much struck,
and as ready to fling off what Pryer had told him, as he now was to throw
aside all he had ever heard from anyone except Pryer; but there was no Mr
Hawke at hand, so Pryer had everything his own way.
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