“You will be pleased to bear that I received the tracts, &c, quite safely; and distributed them with much prayer for the Lord’s blessing on them—to His own praise and glory. I may almost say, they are literally sent all over the world. Some were sent to New Zealand; Queensland; Sydney; the interior parts of Australia. Some were put on board steamers and sailing ships going to different parts of the world, to people of all classes and denominations.
“I do not mention these things boastingly; but that you may know that your labor in packing and sending the tracts has not been in vain. I shall be very pleased to receive some more, if you have any to spare; as I have so many opportunities of distributing them among classes not often reached by the evangelist, and who, from the nature of their occupation (seamen) have not the same privileges as others.”
We give the foregoing with the earnest hope that it may encourage our readers to pack up all their superfluous tracts, and forward them to our dear friend Mr. Hartridge. The Lord is largely using the agency of tracts and books, all over the world; and it seems a sad mistake for us, in highly favored England, to allow these precious things to lie useless in our drawers and on our shelves, when thousands in far off lands would be only too glad to receive them. We do not even ask the reader to spend a penny on a new tract. We merely want him to send just such as are lying useless beside him. May the Lord stir us all up as to this service!
C. Η. M.