Sermon Illustrations

Edwin Rushworth had been a skeptic all his life. He resolved to read for an hour a day the book that he had so long derided. "Wife," he said, as he looked up from his first perusal, "if this book is right, we are all wrong!" He continued his readings for another week. "Wife," he exclaimed at the end of that time, "if this book is right, we are lost!" He went on reading with more avidity than ever. "Wife!" he said earnestly a few nights later, "if this book is right, we may be saved!" And they were!