A visitor to Spanish Galicia dropped a gospel tract into a market basket which a woman was carrying on her head. As she glanced up and saw the distributor, she said: "That's no use to me. I can't read."
"Have you no one at home who can read?" asked the traveler.
"Yes," was her reply. "My husband is a good reader."
"Well, get him to read the tract," was the rejoinder!
This she did. Her husband read it over and over until the contents found entrance into his soul. Then he longed to know the Lord of whom it spoke.
On inquiring he learned that the traveler was staying in Marin. He journeyed there, sought him out, and heard more fully of God's wonderful provision to meet man's great need. Soon, he was rejoicing in the knowledge of salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus. He returned to his home in Galicia to preach Christ to his household and neighbors.
For a period of forty years, the man labored faithfully in the gospel among his people. Many believed and began to spread the glad tidings in their own area. There a large group of believers was found, going on in simplicity with the Lord.
ALL THIS WAS THE RESULT OF ONE TRACT dropped in a woman's market basket. How true are the words of the old proverb: "The pen is mightier than the sword." Truer still is Ecclesiastes 11:11Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. (Ecclesiastes 11:1): "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days."