A SHOP PAPERED WITH THE BIBLE.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Friends of Missions in Japan tells the following interesting story of a lady who went into a cake shop to buy some cakes for her children. While waiting for the cakes, she saw that the walls were papered with leaves from the Bible. This was so strange that she asked the old woman about it; and she told the lady that one day, passing by a book shop, she saw a pile of papers thrown away as useless. As her shop needed papering, she thought this was just the thing, and took some of it home, and pasted it over the walls. One evening her grandson came in, and began reading aloud from the paper on the walls. The old woman was so interested in what she heard that she listened eagerly, and got all who would to read it to her. One day a young man came who asked her if she understood it, and whether she was a Christian. She told him how much she enjoyed hearing it, but she did not understand it much; so he promised to take her to church the next day. After this she attended regularly, and became an earnest Christian. She now keeps a stock of tracts by her, and into every little bag of cakes she drops one. Is not this encouraging? All that good came out of leaves of the Bible thrown away, which were considered of no use.—Christian Advocate.