The distribution of tracts is a grand work. It is a work in which the young and old, rich and poor, educated and illiterate, can have a part: tracts run up and down like angels of light, blessing all and asking nothing in return. They can travel at little expense. They can tell their story in kitchen or shop, the parlor or closet, in the hotel, omnibus or railway train and stations, in the footpath or in the fields, and can be made to speak on any subject. In short, they can be made the vehicles of truth and the teachers of all classes, the benefactors of all saints.
A lady once traveled nearly two hundred miles to tell the writer personally how a little leaflet that had been given her the year before had led to her conversion. By the use of a similar card a young man was led to accept the Lord Jesus, and through his influence both his father and mother were brought into the Master's service.
The writer being led to speak to an engineer about his soul's welfare, and leaving a little card bearing the gospel message (after personal dealing), received, a short time after, a letter, saying, "Do you remember me? I was lost that night you came and spoke to me on the train, but thank God for sending you to me. I have found peace and joy in the Lord Jesus, and am so happy I feel like shouting all the time. The Bible is a New Book to me now."
A Christian worker in England tells the following incident: I was called to see a dying woman. I found her rejoicing in Christ, and asked her how she found the Lord. “Reading that," she replied, handing me a torn piece of paper. I looked at it and found it to be a part of an American newspaper containing an extract from one of Spurgeon's sermons. "Where did you find this?" I asked. She answered, "It was wrapped around a parcel sent me from Australia." Think of that! A sermon preached in London, conveyed to America, then to Australia, part of it torn off for the parcel, sent to England, and after all its wanderings giving the message of salvation to that woman's soul!
Truly "God's Word shall not return unto Him void."
I am convinced that Christian workers could greatly increase their influence by more liberal use of printer's ink in this direction.
The methods of using tracts are innumerable. Let us be encouraged to keep on hand a choice selection to enclose in letters and to give to those by the way with whom we are called to deal, or leave in the pathway of others.
N. B.-Make yourself familiar with the tracts you distribute in order that you may bestow them wisely; also study your field-the world-and remember if you trust Him the Lord will guide you and direct you in every detail of this work.
May our God mightily stir His people everywhere to action. Time is flying, souls are dying, tell of Jesus' love. "Today may be your last chance" to speak for Christ.
Satan's hosts are exceedingly busy filling the land with that which leads souls down to hell. Beloved, think of the tens of thousands of tracts, silent messengers which speak for Him many times, in many places and to many hearts. which you may have fellowship in sending forth, and know assuredly that in the day of manifestation a host shall come before Him, saved through such instrumentalities, besides the many saints that have been refreshed by the way through the written ministry.
Oh, beloved, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Perchance in heaven, one day, to me
Some blessed saint will come and say,
All hail, beloved, but for thee
My soul to death had fallen prey!
And oh, what rapture in the thought
One soul to glory to have brought.
"Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days."
"We reap what we sow."