A Colporteur who labored in the Nile Delta in Egypt tells of having cast his bread upon the waters and finding it after many days. He wrote:
“One day I entered a village and inquired if there were Christians in it, at whose house I might spend the night. The man whom I happened to ask took me to his house and said, ‘Do you not recognize me? I am the man who bought a Bible from you four years ago and, praise be to God, I came to know Christ well, and to believe that He is the living God and the only Saviour.’
“Then he brought in his wife and three children, all of whom had come into the same faith in Christ, and were reading the Bible together, morning and night. He went on, ‘I was despised by the people for taking the Bible, and had to leave the village and go to work in Cairo.’ It was with much difficulty that he earned a living. Said he, ‘I beg you that you will pray to the Lord for me, that He may have mercy upon me, and lead me near to Himself.’
“I spent the night in that house with pleasure. In the morning, my host took a New Testament and gospel portions for the purpose of distributing them among his friends.”
“Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.” Mark 5: 19.
ML 11/12/1967