"Yes, I have. Here it is--_The Author of the Sinner's Friend_; it is a memoir of the man who wrote a little book called _The Sinner's Friend_," said the colporteur, producing a thin booklet in paper cover, "but I'd recommend a Bible along with it, because the Bible tells of the sinner's _best_ friend, Jesus, and remember that without Him you can do _nothing_. He is God, and it is `God who giveth us the victory.' You can't do it by yourself, if you try ever so much." The man bought the booklet and a Testament. Before he left the place that colporteur had sold a fourpenny and a twopenny Testament, and several other religious works, beside distributing tracts gratuitously all round. [See Report of "The Christian Colportage Association for England," 1879, page 12.] "That's what I call carryin' the war into the enemy's camp," remarked one of the company, as the colporteur thanked them and went away. "Come, let's go," said Aspel, rising abruptly and draining his glass of ginger-beer. Bones followed his example. They went out and overtook the colporteur. "Are there many men going about like you?" asked Aspel. "A good many," answered the colporteur. "We work upwards of sixty districts now. Last year we sold Bibles, Testaments, good books and periodicals, to the value of 6700 pounds, besides distributing more than 300,000 tracts, and speaking to many people the blessed Word of Life. It is true we have not yet done much in public-houses, but, as you saw just now, it is not an unhopeful field. That branch has been started only a short time ago, yet we have sold in public-houses above five hundred Bibles and Testaments, and over five thousand Christian books, besides distributing tracts." "It's a queer sort o' work," said Bones. "Do you expect much good from it?" The colporteur replied, with a look of enthusiasm, that he _did_ expect much good, because much had already been done, and the promise of success was sure. He personally knew, and could name, sinners who had been converted to God through the instrumentality of colporteurs; men and women who had formerly lived solely for themselves had been brought to Jesus, and now lived for Him. Swearers had been changed to men of prayer and praise, and drunkards had become sober men-- "Through that little book, I suppose?" asked Bones quickly. "Not altogether, but partly by means of it." "Have you another copy?" asked George Aspel. The man at once produced the booklet, and Aspel purchased it. "What do you mean," he said, "by its being only `partly' the means of saving men from drink?"