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A STRANGE MESSENGER

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 3, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 5.

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A STRANGE MESSENGER

This is the title in one of our exchanges of this remarkable fact in natural history and its more remarkable outcome in morals:—
“A professional diver said he had in his house what would probably strike a visitor as a very strange chimney ornament—the shells of an oyster holding fast a piece of printed paper. The possessor of this ornament was diving on the coast, when he observed at the bottom of the sea this oyster on a rock, with a piece of paper in its mouth, which he detached, and commenced to read through the goggles of his head-dress. It was a gospel tract, and, coming to him thus strangely and unexpectedly, so impressed his unconverted heart, that he said, ‘I can hold out against God’s mercy in Christ no longer, since it pursues me thus.’ He became, whilst in the ocean’s depth, a repentant, converted, and (as he was assured) sin forgiven man. Saved at the bottom of the sea.”