THE TRACT IN OYSTER’S MOUTH
A professional diver said he had in his house what would probably strike a visitor as a very strange chimney ornament — the shells of an oyster holding fast a piece of printed paper. The possessor of this ornament was diving on the coast, when he observed at the bottom of the sea this oyster on a rock, with a piece of paper in its mouth, which he detached and commenced to read through the goggles of his headdress. It was a gospel tract, and, coming to him this strange and unexpected way, so impressed his unconverted heart, that he said: “I can hold out against God’s mercy in Christ no longer, since it pursues me thus.” He became, while in the ocean’s depth, a repentant, converted and sin-forgiven man. Paul Tan, Encyclopedia of 700 Illustrations, p. 748
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