CHAPTER IV.
A FEW LETTERS (From Bernal Linford to the Reverend Allan Delcher.) _Dear Grandfather:_ The college year soon ends; also my course.

I think you hoped I wouldn't want again to talk of those matters.

But it isn't so.
I am primed and waiting, and even you, old man, must listen to reason.

The world of thought has made many revolutions since you shut yourself into that study with your weekly church paper.

So be ready to hear me.
Affectionately, BERNAL LINFORD.
(From the Reverend Allan Delcher to Bernal Linford.) "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions." I am sending you a little book.
GRANDFATHER.
(From Bernal Linford to the Reverend Allan Delcher.) _Dear Old Man:_ How am I going to thank you for the "little book"-- for Butler's Analogy?
Or rather, how shall I forgive you for keeping it from me all these years?
I see that you acquired it in 1863--and I never knew! I must tell you that I looked upon it with suspicion when I unwrapped it--a suspicion that the title did not allay.