Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-03-30
The Power of n LittIe Rook,


In the Jubilee Memorial Of the Religious
| Tract Society, the following striking fact il
recorded. illustrative of the beneficial effects
that follow the distribution Of good books
This cheap and easy method Of doing good
we strongly recommend. es ssH
An old vender of tracts, when visiting a
depository at Stroud, related the following
fact:
/ "As passed through village in York
shire, | asked poor woman to buy reli-
gious tract She refused. lturned round
and threw one in at the door. and the wind
carried il under the table. The man Of the
house came home. saw il, took it Up. and
read the ti;le-"The Wonderful Adyanta-
ges Of Drunkenness" he left his dinner,
and put it in his pocket. After be got to
bis work lie read it. In the evening his
companions missed him at the ale house
and when they saw him. they inquired
where be was on the preceding evening"
He said be had been reading a religious
tract. On giving this account of himself,
they all laughed, and said be was going to
turn Methodist. His sneighbors said, "John
P. was sober last night" which quite sur
prised them, as this seldom occurred But
from this time he kept from the public
house, and began to pay his debts. His
wife told all who inquired about him. that
the cause Of this great change was reading
religious tract, entitled, "The Wonderful
Advantages of Drunkenness" which poor
man had thrown in at their door. After
being away two years, returned to that
neighborhood again. stopped at public
house, about two miles from the village be-
fore named, and offered my tracts for sale
One of the persons in the room, with a
dreadful oath, said was one Of those Meth
odists that had made their companion mad
The woman Of the house said:
"Do you call him mad: then wish you
would pay the FIVE pounds you owe me !:
for be has paid me every farthing be owed
me, and all in less than two years"
On entering house abou. mile furth-
er, was informed that the tract l had
thrown, two years before, in a poor mans
house, had made him another man. AT
length l arrived at the village. A woman
looked hard at nae, and said:
"Are you not the man who sold me some
tracts about two years ago."
/ said I was. Then she said:
"You must go With me TO the house
where you threw the tract in, and am
quite sure the woman will not tell you to
go 10 hell now"
AS soon as entered, the woman inform
ed her was the man she so much wished
TO see. She cried out:
"What! that the dear man who threw
10 the tract?"' aud, running, she took hold
of my hand, and said 81 humbly beg your
pardon fer what said; ! was iR passion,
and very vile and wicked"
She bad me sit down to dinner. and said
her husband would be there in few. min
utes. AS soon as he came in she told him
who I was. He took me very kindly By
the hand and said:
Blessed was that hour when you threw
the tract into my house, and thrice blessed
is that God who directed you to one 30
wicked. / was then poor and wretehed;
spent most Of my time in the ale-house;
but now, thank Godl have house ofmy
own, and it is my delight to talk Of the
goodness of that God which directed me
to the reading of the tract"