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teacher blushed deeply and asked El He not to raise unseemly
questions.    (The answer dawned on El He at that moment.)    When they
came to the New Testament, ElHe's agitation ôf*+y increased.   The  kpU
, attempt to trace^the ppophogiodVafteeg^y^ur Jesus fpemADQvidr»t»rettf^
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transparent attempt to fit the Isaiahlc prophecy after the eventA She
was moved by the Sermon on the Mount, deeply disappointed by the
admonition to render unto .Caesar what is Caesar's, and e>4ven to s^*¿*  **4  ^^n
violent confrontation on the meaning of-¿oou3' romadu I bring not
peace but the sword." She told her despairing mother that she had
done her best, but wild horses would net drag her to another Bible
class.
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£0 ¡,  -She had half-expected not to attend college^, Staughton would not
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pay for her to go elsewhere, -w*H4e her mother's meek Intercessions
were unavailing. AndYnt^was determined to leave homejBtTEshe had
done spectacularly well on the standardized college entrance
examinations and found, to her surprise, her teachers telling her that
she was likely to receive scholarships e#en- from well-known
universities. (She had guessed on a number of multiple choice
questions and considered her performance a fluke. If you know^only
enough to exclude all but the two most likely answers, and 1f you then
guess at ten straight questions, there is one chance 1n a thousand,
she explained to herself, that you'll get all ten correct. For twenty
straight questions, the odds were one in a million. But something