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He had already decided that the man was neither a colporteur nor a clerical mendicant; his clothes were too good, for one thing. The man laughed, a short, unpleasant sound which ended in a fit of coughing. "A stranger in Brookville?" he echoed. "Well; not precisely.... But never mind that, young man.
Several months had passed away since Eric had quitted home, when one day a man, with a large pack on his back, presented himself at the Castle-gate, and demanded to see the Knight. He was admitted. "Well, friend, what would you with me?" asked the Knight. "I have books to sell, and will show them to you forthwith," answered the colporteur, unslinging his pack.
Here it is The Author of the Sinner's Friend; it is a memoir of the man who wrote a little book called The Sinner's Friend," said the colporteur, producing a thin booklet in paper cover, "but I'd recommend a Bible along with it, because the Bible tells of the sinner's best friend, Jesus, and remember that without Him you can do nothing.
The physical remedy will not cure the soul's disease, but the moral remedy the acceptance of Jesus will not only cure the soul, but will secure to us that spiritual influence which will enable us to `persevere to the end' with the physical. Thus Jesus will save both soul and body `it is God who giveth us the victory." They parted from the colporteur at this point.
As far as Hake was concerned, the sole link between them was that of reminiscence of earlier days and adventures in Borrow’s beloved East Anglia. Among many proofs that I could adduce of this, I will give one. I am the possessor of the manuscript of Borrow’s ‘Gypsies in Spain,’ written partly in a Spanish note-book as he moved about Spain in his colporteur days.
"If the books you sell have made you so, they must be good." "The books certainly are good, and I am more honest than I was. Once I ate the bread of idleness, indulged in sloth, and was of no use to any one. Now I labour for my food, and try to obey my Lord and Master," answered the colporteur. "Why, what were you?" asked the Knight. "A monk," answered the colporteur; "a lazy, idle monk.
I have often seen the same spirit shown in South America. A colporteur, writing of Scripture circulation in the Argentine, says: "Many of the people are trying to get us ejected from the city. One, to whom a Bible was offered, became so infuriated that he said: 'If it were not such a public place?
"He began the work when shut up in the Wartburg, and has only lately finished it with the help of Dr Melancthon. Here are some other works by him. Will you take them?" "Yes, three four one copy of each. There is payment," said the Knight, laying down some gold pieces. "I take but the proper price," answered the colporteur, returning most of them to him. "You are an honest man," said the Knight.
A peaceful farming country this, but an unremunerative field, one would say, for the colporteur and the book-agent; and winter must inclose it in a lonesome seclusion. The only other thing of note the Bras d'Or offered us before we reached West Bay was the finest show of medusm or jelly-fish that could be produced.
There, as under the eye of the Master, he reviewed the time he had labored as a colporteur, and prayed for forgiveness for the past and grace for the future. There he told the Saviour all about his work, and asked him to go with him that day, preparing the way and enabling him to succeed in the work on which he had entered. The result was what might have been expected.
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