Recipe for Suckers?

For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11).

Shortly after Calvin Coolidge’s marriage, a door-to-door bookseller sold Mrs. Coolidge a weighty tome called Our Family Physician for eight dollars. Afraid of telling Mr. Coolidge about her purchase, she left the book lying around on the sitting room table without saying anything about it.

Mr. Coolidge never mentioned the book but one day his wife glanced inside the cover and there on the flyleaf her husband had written:

“Don’t see any recipe for curing suckers.”

Credulous Warden

The Sante Prison in France is so well constructed and guarded that since its completion in 1867, only six prisoners were able to escape successfully. But Leon Daudet, a prisoner, walked out of its front gates in 1927 by the simplest of methods. A friend telephoned the warden that Daudet had been pardoned. And the credulous prison official—without checking immediately released him.