Mr. Benjamin Glasgow was well known as a godly man and an evangelist. About 1894, he called one day at a book-shop to buy a book suitable for an unconverted friend. There were in stock two copies of the one he chose—one in ordinary binding, the other very beautifully bound, as if especially for a gift. This one he chose, and on his way to Bayswater on leaving the bus, he absent-mindedly left the volume on the seat. A few days later he again visited the book-shop and bought the other copy, which he sent to his friend. Nothing was ever heard of that copy again.
About three years later, Mr. Glasgow was at a noon-day prayer meeting. Among those present he was surprised to see an old friend, a man for whom he had often prayed but to whom he had never spoken about his soul. After the meeting had begun, this friend arose and said: "I wish to record how the Lord met me in grace. Three years ago, I found on a seat in a Bayswater bus a book which showed me my state before God. I took the book home, read it, and prayed over it. By its means the Holy Spirit convinced me of my lost condition. I had no peace nor rest until I found both peace and rest in the full atonement of Jesus.”
When the speaker sat down, Mr. Glasgow arose and said: "My brother, now I know why I lost that book. It puzzled me much at the time; but now I see that God intended to make use of it not as I thought, but according to His own purpose and grace.”
"MERE IS NO PEACE,
SAITH MY GOD,
TO THE WICKED."
"BEING JUSTIFIED
BY FAITH,
WE HAVE
PEACE WITH GOD
THROUGH
OUR LORD
JESUS CHRIST."