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# AN ANCIENT COURTSHIP  DO not believe there is a storybook printed which has in it more stories loved by children than the Bible. I once knew a little girl who divided all her time between the Book of Revelation and the *Arabian Nights*. Both were equally real to her, and in what a happy world of imagination did she live! She was just twelve years old, the age when boys and girls begin to read poetry and to dream of the wonderful. She is older and wiser now. She knows that the stories of the *Arabian Nights* are only stories, and that the strange things told in the Book of Revelation are not actually to happen, but like a cloak they hide the truth until the time of the prophecy’s fulfilment. But the stories in the other books of the Bible are not like these of Revelation, for the other