Peggy was a mill worker. She worked twelve hours a day, earning a small salary, and had to help support her widowed mother. But she was a happy Christian girl, and from the time of her conversion, she was a diligent worker for her new Master.
She was aroused to concern about her salvation through reading a tract, and had great faith in the value of good gospel tracts. She seldom went out without her case, which was always filled with a good selection, and she knew exactly where to lay hands on the right one for the right person.
She had a district which she visited every week, leaving a gospel message in each of the houses. At first the people were very haughty, and told her to keep her tracts to herself. Peggy smiled, looked as pleased as possible, and said,
“If I do that, then you will have none, but I mean to share them with you.” And so on she would go, nothing daunted, until every house was open to her.
Some striking cases of conversion resulted directly from Peggy’s service. One drunken man, who lay in bed on Sundays reading the newspapers, became interested in Peggy’s afternoon visits, and looked eagerly for her tract, and was eventually convicted of sin and saved.
A poor woman, unable to go out to hear the Word from lack of dress, read one of Peggy’s booklets, saw the way of life, and accepted the Lord Jesus as her Saviour.
Wasn’t Peggy’s a good and fruitful work? And doesn’t it bring a present joy as well as a future reward to those who diligently serve the Lord? What are you doing for His honored name, dear young believer? There is a wide, wide world, in which to sow the seed, and needy sinners all around, longing for the saving, sanctifying, and satisfying gospel of the blessed God to be told to them by the lip, or given them to read.
You may share this honored service, which in the coming day the Lord will not forget to own and richly reward. While some will, doubtless, oppose and reject, the Lord will open the doors and hearts of others to receive His message unto salvation; and the joy of winning one soul for Jesus is beyond all description.