HEAPING COALS OF FIRE

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 32.

HEAPING COALS OF FIRE.

"For in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head." Rom. 12:20. A good man named William Grey, who lived near a small town in Hampshire, had a horse that sometimes strayed from the common. A drunken farmer, who disliked Grey for being a religious man, put the strayed horse in the pound, and on being remonstrated with said, "And if I meet him again on the road, I'll do it again!"

"Neighbor," replied Grey, "not long since I looked from my window and saw some of your cattle in my meadow, and I drove them out, and did not leave them until I shut them safely in your yard, and if I find them again there, 'I'll do it again!'" The man was so struck with the reply, that he paid the charge of Grey's horse being in the pound, and became a better neighbor ever after.—Watchword.