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So far we will count ourselves even, and it only remains that I should quote my Scripture, and let the other party quote the one Scripture on the opposite side, and then we will be dismissed." I gave the views of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees as detailed by Josephus, and then quoted Luke in the Acts of Apostles: "The Sadducees say there is no resurrection, neither angel nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both." And Paul says, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee." So I also say, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, and hold to the existence of human and angelic spirits. When I announced that I should call for objections, I saw Mrs.Chapman take up her Bible in a flutter and nervously turn over its leaves.
When I sat down all eyes were turned on her, and there was a death-like stillness in the house.
Then she rose up, and in a moment was out of the house.
She left the town the next morning and never came back.
Then it was "Old Bob Burton's" turn to speak.
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