Rev. C. H. Spurgeon used to tell this story:
A woman in Scotland, who was determined not to have anything to
do with religion, threw her Bible and all the tracts she could
find into the fire. One tract fell out of the flames, so she
thrust it in again. A second time it slipt down, and once more
she put it back. Again her evil intention was frustrated, but a
third effort was more successful, tho even then only half of it
was consumed. Taking up this half, she exclaimed, “Surely the
devil is in that tract, for it won’t burn.”
Her curiosity being excited, she began to read it, and it was
the means of her conversion. It was one of the sermons published
in “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit.” (Text.)
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