HOW FIVE SPADES DUG THROUGH
A CHAPTER TO BE READ FOR THE TRAINING
OF THE OBJECT WORKER
This is an uncommon object-lesson. It is a curio in visual instruction. One summer while traveling in the great Northwest, I dropped into a Salvation Army meeting, and in their War Cry, which I then purchased, I read the following story.
It is a record of the conquest of an uncommon object-lesson upon which God had put his great O.K. by the salvation of a soul. Read it through as another helpful illustration of the ministry of visual instruction in thorny ground. This was the story.
"A friend of mine was once coming on a train when five of the nine in the coach began to play cards; they were evidently sharpers, and before long challenged others to play with them, but all declined, At last they turned to my friend and said:
"We can see by your face that you fully understand the game; come, take a turn."
"I did know the cards once; but it is so long since I played that I forget how to play."
"Nonsense!" they said, "you could win all our money, if you only tried."
"Perhaps that would not be very much," he replied; "anyway, I will not attempt. Five of you are enough for your game; we will look on."
As they still pegged away at him, he said at last: