IT WAS just before the War. A colporteur offered a Bible as a gift to a family. The father accepted it but immediately tore a dozen pages out of the Bible and lit his pipe with them. The colporteur went away disappointed.
A few years later, he again came into this region and called at the same house. During the war this family had lost a son and his few belongings had just arrived. Among his possessions was also a Bible. The colporteur took it in his hand and noticed that it was the very one he once gave to the family and from which the pages had been torn out.
The fallen soldier had written in the back of the Bible the following: “Despised and scoffed at but finally believed. Through it I was saved.”
ML-01/16/1972