A Torn Page
“The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it” (Psalm 68:11).
A preacher in England asked a dying Christian woman where she found the Saviour. In reply she gave him a piece of paper torn from an American journal containing part of one of C. H. Spurgeon’s sermons. The scrap had been wrapped around a package that came to her from Australia. The words of Spurgeon were read by her and were the means of leading her to Christ.
Commenting on this incident, a writer says, “Think of it; a sermon preached in England, printed in America, in some way coming to Australia, a part of it used as wrapping paper there, coming back to England, was the means of converting a soul.”
What an encouragement there is in such an incident for those who preach the gospel by means of the printed page! Tracts and Christian leaflets have been wonderfully and mightily used of God in the salvation of the lost.
