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trilu tlon ¡~^cu£ ? he prayed for tract distribution every day for over forty years. An old Negro was once given a tract by a minister, who later asked him what he thought of it. “ Oh, Massa,” was the reply, “ it do my soul good. I neber knew afore why dey call ’em tracks, but when I read de lil book, it tracks me dat way. When I go into de barn, it tracks me dere; when I go into the house, it tracks me dere. It tracks me eberywhere I go, and now I know why dey call ’em tracks.” From "The Silent Messenger" ‘ By Frederick A. Tatford
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« T EAFLET evangelism,” says one -I—y writer, “ requires no rented build ings, no costly cars, no bus or railway tickets to reach its audience. Leaflets travel cheaply. They work day and night. They have free access to homes, prisons, and hospitals, at all hours. They reach audiences untouched by any other gospel endeavor. There is no limit to the dy namic power invested in the ministry of tract evangelism.” Tract distribution, moreover, banishes lethargy and apathy, and deepens spiritual zeal and earnest ness in the distributor. A brilliant young actor, on the way to the theatre, was handed a tract by a humble old woman. He pushed it into his pocket and forgot all about it until he pulled it out at the hotel that night. He casually read it and then re-read it. It so arrested him that the next morning he paid a visit to a minister, who pointed him to the Saviour. Five months later, he gave up the stage and entered a theological seminary. That man was Dr. George C. Lorimer, who became the famous pastor of Tremont Temple of Boston, Mass. A laundry worker, who often inserted gospel leaflets in outgoing laundry bun dles, felt led one evening to put one into a rolling basket, which would be used by the girls in the morning. The next day, the floor manager summoned him into his office and asked whether he was responsible for putting the tract into the basket. On confession being made, the floor manager said, “ Last night, I came here discouraged and disappointed with life. I wheeled that basket under the middle girder of the pressing room, in tending to hang myself from the girder and to kick away the basket from un der me. I caught sight of the paper in the basket and picked it out. That tract saved me from suicide and it also saved my soul, for I have accepted Christ as my Saviour.” Another man stood in a quiet place. He had been out of work for months and his meager supply of cash was now gone. He had had no food for three days, and there seemed no alternative but to end his life. He was about to pull out the cork from the little bottle of poison in his hand, when he noticed a piece of paper on the ground, bearing the words, I f You Are Left. He picked it up and read through the tract, with its message of salvation, hope, and a future with God’s help. He dashed the bottle against the wall, called on the Lord for salva tion, and turned back from death to face life in dependence upon God. George Müller said: “ On every tract we give, we should as much as possible, ask God’s blessing. We should expect God’s blessing on our labors and confi dently look for it. We should labor in this service, prayerfully and believingly, even though for a long time, we see little or no fruit.” George Müller cer tainly fulfilled his own injunction, for O C T O B E R , 1 9 4 8
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