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Edited by W. T. P. Wolston.
ROWLAND HILL began his sermon one morning by saying: “My friends, the other day I was going down the street, and I saw a drove of pigs following a man. This excited my curiosity so much that I determined to follow. I did so, and to my great surprise, saw them follow him to the slaughter-house. I was anxious to know how this was brought about, and I said to the man, ‘My friend, how did you manage to induce those pigs to follow you here?’
“‘Oh! did you not see?’ said the man, ‘I had a basket of beans under my arm, and I dropped a few as I came along, and so they followed me!’
“Yes,” said the preacher, “and I thought, so it is, the devil has his basket of beans under his arm, and he drops them as he goes along, and what multitudes he induces to follow him to an everlasting slaughter-house! Yes, my friends, and all your broad and crowded thoroughfares are strewn with the beans of the devil.”
ANON.