You can do nothing with John Klug. I assure you we have done everything we could.”
The comrade was only a workman, but he had a heart full of love for his Saviour, and for immortal souls. He prayed much for poor John Klug, and at last the Lord gave him a plan.
Every day he wrote a text from the Bible on a slip of paper, which he shoved under the door of John King’s house, as he passed in the mornings to his work.
Four months later the neighbors were telling each other that John Klug, the drunkard, was converted. He had become quite a different man, and no longer drank, and all, through some slips of paper that somebody had shoved under his door, and which he had read. He had told someone that he could not get away from those Bible texts; he could never get them out: of his mind, and at last they had lead him direct to Christ.
His neighbors puzzled themselves about the change that had come over him; but the Word of God always works wonders such as this, where it is accepted; for the Lord has promised that His Word shall not return to Him void, but will accomplish what He pleases, and prosper in the thing whereto He sends it.
No doubt Peter put under John’s door such texts from the Bible as these:
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