A CHRISTIAN who had been always earnest and untiring tract distributor, became lukewarm and unhappy because he saw no fruit of his labor. Finally he gave up tract distribution altogether for ten long years.
One day, however, as he passed along a certain street, a stranger of offered him a tract. He accepted it, but added with a note of disappointment: “I used to do this sort of thing myself, but no good ever came of it.”
“Sir,” was the earnest reply, “you are mistaken. I remember your face. Ten years ago you gave me a tract in this very street. I read it, and it was the means of my conversion.”
Deeply humbled, this servant again took up his work for the Lord, but with the sad knowledge that ten years had flown beyond recall, and the gifts of time and opportunity allowed to pass unused.
“Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” 1 Cor. 15:58.
“Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Gal. 6:9.
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