"What is your object in giving these tracts out?" said a respectable farmer's wife in a puzzled tone to me one market day.
I told her that those tracts call attention to what vitally concerns every one of us. They point the way of salvation of our souls and tell us how we must be saved for eternity with Christ.
Still she looked puzzled. It seemed strange to her that one should so lower herself in the eyes of others for—to her—such a useless object.
Perhaps at home she would read the tract I had given to her. From it she would learn, maybe for the first time, that Christ had died for her, a sinner. Would she turn to Him and trust Him as her Savior? If so, she too could have a sense of her own eternal security and happiness, and her heart would go out in pity to those who "heedless of their souls immortal" are hastening on to a lost eternity. Then her longing cry for them would be:
"Oh, will somebody tell them?
Tell them of Calvary's tree;
Tell them the story of Jesus,
What a great Savior is He!”
If this be the blessed result of her reading that gospel leaflet, she will have the answer to her question: "What is your object in giving these tracts away?”