Saving the Preaching That Goes Up in Smoke

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 22, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 12.

Saving the Preaching That Goes Up in Smoke

A MAN out of a job and with bad luck all through life stood in a smelter of a Missouri lead mine. Turning to the foreman he said, "If you only get nine-tenths of the lead in the ore, where does the other tenth go?" "Up in the smoke, I suppose," was the reply. Then said the man to himself, "If it goes up in the smoke, I think I can find a way of getting it out," and he did. It made him rich, and brought riches to others. If all the preaching that goes up in smoke could only be caught and saved, how this world would be pushed on! But how much of it would be worth saving at all?