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THE DEVIL'S BEANS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 3, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 5.

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THE DEVIL'S BEANS.

By H. L. Hastings

The Rev. Rowland Hill began his sermon one morning by saying: “My friends, the other day I was going down the street, and I saw a drove of pigs following a man. This excited my curiosity so that I determined to follow. I did so, and to my great surprise I saw them follow him to the slaughter-house. I was very anxious to know how this was brought about, and I said to the man, ‘My friend, how did you manage to induce these pigs to follow you here?’”
“‘O, did you not see?’ said the man, ‘I had a basket of beans under my arm, and I dropped a few as I came along, and so they followed me.’”
“‘Yes,’ said the preacher, ‘and I thought, so it is, the devil has a basket of beans under his arm, and he drops them as he goes along, and what multitudes he induces to follow him to an everlasting slaughter-house! Yes, friends, and all your broad and crowded thoroughfares are strewn with the beans of the devil.’”—The Family Circle, by H. L. Hastings.