1. It affords work for young Christians. “There is no simpler method with which young converts may begin to engage in Christian work. Before ever the young believer finds himself able for any other means of public testimony, he will find here an outlet for his energies.”
2. The aged and infirm may engage in it. It need never be departed from, no matter how old or infirm one may become. A servant of Christ once said: “It is a work in which an old convert may end his service for his Lord.”
3. It may be used to open the way for personal dealing with souls. Many Christians would like to do personal work if they knew how to begin. Here then is a method. After one has given a tract it often becomes comparatively easy to enter into a conversation.
To summarize the advantages of tract work we quote the following: “Tracts can go everywhere. Tracts know no fear. Tracts never tire. Tracts can be multiplied without end by the press. Tracts can travel at little expense. They run up and down like the angels of God, blessing all, giving to all, asking no gift in return.
They can talk to one as well as to a multitude, and to a multitude as well as to one. They require no public place to tell their story. They can tell it in the kitchen or the shop, the parlor or the closet, on the plain, in the train or in the bus, on the broad highway or in the footpath through the fields.
They take no notice of scoffs, jeers or taunts. No one can betray them into hasty or random expressions. Though they will not always answer questions, they will tell their stories two, or three, or four times if you wish. And they can be made to speak on every subject, and on every subject they may be made to speak wisely and well. They can, in short, be made the vehicle of truth, the teacher of all classes, the benefactor of all saints.”
ML-12/30/1979