YOU sent a tent-bill pasted on a tract, “The Lifeboat,” by C. H. M., to Mrs. S. She thought the tract would suit an old man at B—, but intended before sending it to remove the tent announcement, but, finding it firmly stuck on, she sent it with the tract, as it was, in an open envelope.
Some days after she saw the old man, and asked if he had read “The Lifeboat.”
“Ay,” said he, “and I think I be in it.”
“But did you read the tract carefully?”
“Weel, anyhow I’ll tell you what I read. I read that”―pointing to “GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE,” which was printed at the bottom of the notice― “and I saw in it what I never saw before. I saw that God loved the world, and I be of it; and there’s whomsoever,’ and I be one of they, and I read it over I should say a twelve times and more, and I be just brought to say what Moses said, ‘Stand still and see the salvation of God,’ for I come to see I can do naught of myself.”
E. C.