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 much that I determined to follow. I did so; and to my great surprise, I saw them follow him to the slaughter-house. I was anxious to know how this was brought about, and I said to the man, 'My friend, how did you manage to induce those 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.' Yes," said the preacher, "and I thought, so it is that the devil has his 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 devil is just as busy now, with his basket of beans, as he was when Rowland Hill preached that sermon, and he is just as successful in enticing silly men and women to the slaughter-house of souls.—Unknown.