ETERNITY.

Hoa Maori, Issue 17, 1 July 1890, Page 5

ETERNITY.

An extract.

<K«fj CHRISTIAN gentleman was travellJJSF3J ing in a steamboat. He took some tracts out and scattered them about for the passengers to read. Many were glad to get

them, and read them carefully. But one gentleman was there who disliked the truth of God and His people very much. He took one of the tracts and doubled it up, and then deliberately took out his penknife and cut it all up into little pieces. He then held out his hand and scattered the pieces over the side of the boat, to show his contempt for the truth. When he had done this, he saw one of the pieces sticking to his coat. He picked it off and looked at it a moment before throwing it away. On one side of that bit of paper was only one word; it was the word " God." He turned it over, and on the other side was the word "Eternity." He threw away the bit of paper. He got rid of that easily enough, but those two solemn words, "God" and "Eternity" he could not get rid of. He tried drinking, he tried gambling, to drive those words from his mind, but it was no use; they haunted him wherever he went, and he never had any comfort until he became a Christian. That little piece of paper with those two words upon it, was the means of his conversion. '• The word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."— 4. 12.