A pastor in England asked a dying Christian woman where she found the Saviour. She gave him a piece of paper torn from an American journal containing 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 in wrapping paper there, coming back to England, was the means of converting this woman.
What an encouragement there is in such an incident for those who preach the Gospel by means of printer’s ink! Tracts and religious papers have been wonderfully used of God in the salvation of souls.
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands” (Isaiah 55: 10-11).
-The Gospel Standard-