“Do you mean as human beings are personal and individual?” Katherine respectfully inquired.

“Well, I must at least have something more tangible than an unknown quantity for my God,” he replied, evasively, as he hurriedly began to turn the leaves of his Bible in search of a text.  “He is spoken of as a king, ruler, judge, and so forth, and those terms certainly convey the idea of personality.”

“But can you limit or outline Deity, sir?  Would not that destroy the omnipresence of God?”

Again the man changed color a trifle, while, as he continued to search the pages of his Bible, he became conscious of a sudden inward shock.

The question had started a new train of thought.  Certainly, infinity, omnipresence, could neither be limited nor outlined; those were self-evident facts.

There was no yawning in the class now.  The attention of everyone was riveted upon the speakers, while Dorothy leaned forward in her chair, her earnest eyes glancing from one face to the other, her eager ears drinking in their every word.

“But what do you say to this passage from Hebrews, Miss Minturn, where Paul, speaking of Christ, calls Him the express image of His—­God’s—­person?” [Footnote:  Hebrews, 1-3.] demanded the professor—­having found the text he was looking for—­with a note of triumph in his tone which indicated that he had now propounded an unanswerable argument.

“I have been told that the Greek word, which has been translated ‘person’ in the text you have read, really means character, and it is so rendered in my Bible, which is the revised version,” Katherine replied, as she opened her book and found the passage.

Now Prof.  Seabrook, although he prided himself upon being strictly up to date in everything pertaining to his profession, had neglected to provide himself with the revised version of the New Testament.  However, now that his attention was called to the fact, he remembered having heard this text and its change discussed among brother professors, but it had for the moment escaped his memory.

Yet he was equal to the occasion, and no one would have suspected from his manner that he was deeply chagrined to find this young girl so well versed in the Scriptures and able to so logically sustain her position upon every point.

“Ah!” he observed, after a moment of thought, and in his blandest tone, “I have a Greek Testament in my study and will look up the word later.  I find we cannot take up the other question to-day, as our time has expired, and”—­closing his books—­“we will leave it for another lesson.  The class is dismissed.”

He arose as he concluded, and the young ladies filed quietly out of the room; but, once beyond hearing, they gathered in groups to talk over the interesting discussion that had been so suddenly cut short.

Katherine paused beside Dorothy’s chair on her way out, and made some pleasant reference to their meeting of the previous day, and then would have passed on, but the girl threw out her hand and caught hers, thus detaining her.