Startling Question Through Keyhole

The story is told how on one occasion an evangelist, conducting a mission in a North Country town, went into the streets one evening with a number of open-air workers, to give an invitation to the mission then in progress. The usual singing and address having been given, the evangelist asked the workers to go indoors and begin the service. The workers complying, he then went from house to house in a certain row, shouting this question through the keyholes. “Where will you spend eternity?” Having done this, the evangelist himself proceeded to the service. A man coming up to him said that just as he was shouting his question through the keyhole he was about to cut his throat, but was arrested in his design by the evangelist’s startling word. So, sometimes, by the strange method of giving the Gospel message, does God honor the means to His glory and the blessing of men.