. Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful . them up had very costly books of instruction on these subjects, all ofwhich they brought to Paul, and burned them publicly in the this way those men showed that they gave up their old ways,turned to the true God, and put themselves under Pauls control forall the future. That was making thorough work of it, wasnt it, Grandpa ?asked Mary. Yes. What they burned was of great value. We are told theprice of the burned books was fifty thousand pieces of silver. Forhow many pieces of silver was Jesus betrayed ?
. Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful . them up had very costly books of instruction on these subjects, all ofwhich they brought to Paul, and burned them publicly in the this way those men showed that they gave up their old ways,turned to the true God, and put themselves under Pauls control forall the future. That was making thorough work of it, wasnt it, Grandpa ?asked Mary. Yes. What they burned was of great value. We are told theprice of the burned books was fifty thousand pieces of silver. Forhow many pieces of silver was Jesus betrayed ? For thirty, answered all. And about how much of our money was that? Not more than twenty-five dollars, answered Mary; Carrieadding, It may have been as little as four dollars and fifty cents. Probably twenty-five dollars was the sum. If the same piece ofsilver is meant in the account of the bonfire, how much money did itcost? About forty thousand dollars, said Mary. My stars ! shouted Charley. That was a whopper of a bon-fire ! Cost forty thousand dollars. Whew!. A BONFIRE OF COSTLY BOOKS. 494 GRANDPA GOODWINS STORIES. Remember that any book in those days cost an immense sum ofmoney. They did not know how to print at that time. Every bookhad to be written with a pen from beginning to end. And very fewmen could write at all, much less write well enough to make a was an unusual subject, too. Few men could make a bookon that; so, for these reasons a few books might easily have costthe sum named. All their books, however, were brought by thesemen and publicly burned. Why didnt they sell them, if they didnt want them any more ?inquired mercantile Charley. They believed the books to be bad, and they would not allowothers to be harmed by them. What was not good for themselvesto keep they would not sell to others. That was right. Better losethousands of dollars than do wrong yourself or harm the soul ofanother. They were more conscientious, said Mary, than a boy I readof. He
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