What had he learned? Enough Hebrew and Greek to be able to crawl through the Bible by using lexicons- so that, like all his classmates once they were out of the seminary, he always read it in English. A good many of the more condemnatory texts of the Bible- rather less than the average Holy Roller carpenter-evangelist. The theory that India and Africa have woes because they are not Christianized, but that Christianized Bangor and Des Moines have woes because the devil, a being obviously more potent than omnipotent God, sneaks around counteracting the work of Baptist preachers.
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