Circulating the Bible

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 10, 1907

Circulating the Bible

FAITHFUL men who are distributing the Scriptures among heathen tribes endure no small amount of hardship and privation, and often, in addition to all this, ill usage at the hands of the people. One colporteur who works in Argentina, South America, offered a Bible one day to a gentleman, who replied, in scornful accents, “Do you think I am a fool, that I should buy a Bible?”

“I wish,” said the colporteur, “that you would read it, and then you would become wise. Those who read this Book, and practise its teachings, cease to be fools. Won’t you try, and see if it does not have the same result for you?” They talked for a long time, the colporteur showing him that those who take no interest in their souls exhibit great foolishness. Finally the gentleman seemed moved; he bought a Bible, and went on his way disposed to read it.

Another colporteur in Germany was offering his books to some workmen, who did not believe in God. While he was talking, one of them dipped a whitewash brush in lime, and splashed it all over the gentleman’s clothes. With remarkable self-control, he continued to speak to them of the Scriptures, with the result that the lime-splasher expressed his contrition, and bought a Bible, and twelve of his companions bought New Testaments.—Selected.