In the early years, I had not been at the Tabernacle long. I am going back 45 years or more. I would be preaching in those days to a very small congregation, and I would be preaching in the evening evangelistic service to visitors. And I thought, well, we have our own little flock, who in those far off days were mostly about 45 elderly ladies. But we were getting visitors in, so when I preached evangelistically, I was preaching to the visitors. And then I got a shock, because after a few months, there was one of our resident ladies, a dear soul. She had been a member probably for decades, and I would have thought a Christian for decades. And she came into the vestry to speak to me and said, ‘Pastor, I have found the Lord.’ And she spoke to me so beautifully. She had always fitted in, she had always understood, but she said she had never come to the Lord before. And well, I was amazed and wondered. It was just one of the fragments, you see. It was not really intended for her, but the power of God moves and somebody who we consider long saved says they have found the Lord. You never know who is hearing the Gospel.
Then many years ago, we began to make recordings, and some of them wandered far and wide, and you would hear from somebody who was saved in another land, at a far distance, who had received a cassette from somebody, and you think of the fragments, the pieces, that are left over. It pictures to me that the word of the Gospel is going to so many places, through broadcasts, through electronic means, through downloads and so on, and the Spirit of God moves, and you just never know the great abundance of the sign of salvation.