How the Pigs Were Led
Many years ago I met a drover of pigs
in one of the narrow streets of a large town; and, to my surprise,
they were not driven, but quietly followed their leader. The singular
fact excited my curiosity; and I pursued the swine until they all
quietly entered the butchery. I then asked the man how he succeeded
in getting the poor, stupid, stubborn pigs so willingly to follow
him; when he told me the secret. He had a basket of beans under his
arm; and kept dropping them as he proceeded, and so gained his
object. Ah, my dear hearers, the devil has got his basket of beans;
and he knows how to suit his temptations to every sinner. He drops
them by the way; the poor sinner is thus led captive by the devil at
his will; and if grace prevent not, he will get him at last into his
butchery, and there he will keep him forever. Oh, it is because we
are not ignorant of his devices that we are anxious this evening to
guard you against them.
Illustrative Anecdotes for
Preachers, Sunday School Teachers, and the Family Circle. Henry
M. Tyndall. 1925. #34 (Page 16).
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