Years ago an English soldier lay sleeping, just previous to his departure on that perilous Egyptian campaign. Mr. Blaun, a converted Jew, one of the Christian workers in the ‘Sailor’s Welcome Home,’ laid a tract on his pillow.
The next Sunday, the soldier entered the ‘Welcome Home,’ and little knowing that he was addressing the very man whom the Lord had used to awaken his slumbering soul, asked Mr. Blaun to remember him in prayer, as a tract left on his pillow had described his case as though it had been written for him, and since reading it he had no rest for his soul. He was soon led to the Saviour, and with a joy that is not of this earth he departed never to return to the homeland.
It was a very simple and easy thing to drop that tract on a soldier’s pillow, and yet it saved a soul for the eternal glory. Who that has the will to do it would not do as much? It seems such a little thing to drop a tract here and there, and yet what wonderful results may flow from it.
A tract thrown from a steamboat was picked up and read by a couple of men, who, through it were both converted, and who became the instruments of the conversion of many others.
“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.” (Eccl. 11:6).