"'Yes.'
"'Then never say that our people are foolish or ignorant.'
"Taking from his neck a whistle, made of ivory, and carved with some device, perhaps a man's face, he nodded his head to it in a most solemn manner, and said, 'If my people should see me worshipping my whistle, which looks much better than those monsters, they would think I was mad. They would throw me over a precipice, and cover me with stones.'"
[CHAPTER VI.]
THE GODHEAD; OR, THE SILENCED INFIDEL.
QUESTION VI. How many persons are there in the Godhead?
ANSWER. There are three persons in the Godhead—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.
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"I DON'T believe this lesson will be as interesting as the last," whispered Helen to her cousin Anna, as they sat together an hour or two before the exercise commenced.
"I'm sure I can never understand about the Godhead. I hope mother will tell us a good, long story."
"O, I dare say we shall understand it," replied Anna, promptly. "Aunty makes it so clear and plain; and then uncle will be here too. What a dreadful thing it is to worship idols, as he saw the poor heathen in India!"