but Evie hadn’t told anyone the story of the tracts. “Do you know,” said Frances, sit ting on the side of the other twin bed, “ I had the strangest experience today. I was working in the library at school, putting books back in place and clean ing scrap paper from the tables when I picked up a gospel tract someone had left behind. It had a faint odor of perfume on it. I suppose someone had had it in her handbag. Anyway I read it and for the first time I realized that I had never really accepted Christ. All along I had been taking it all for granted. It was as though God kept saying to me, ‘accept Him now—accept Him now.’ There wasn’t anyone else
in the room so I knelt down for just a moment and asked the Lord to come into my heart. Now I feel wonderful, Evie. I’m really sure qow that I’m saved.” Evie couldn’t keep back the tears, but they were tears of joy. She felt suddenly as though her cup of blessing had overflowed. “ That’s wonderful,” she told her sister and then climbing out of bed again, she knelt and thanked the Lord and asked Him to keep the trail of the tracts going on and on. A Negro philosopher said, “ One reason why some folks never git nowhar is, dey’s wa’n’t ’gwine nowhar when dey sta’ted.”
The Trail of the French Perfume (Continued from. Page 14) woman went out the door, “ use the message of the tract to bring convic tion to her heart.” She wondered which of the fifteen girls had left the tract in the dentist’s office but she knew she would probably never know the answer to that. Maida was one of the girls Evie had hoped most of all to reach. The two of them had been friends for a long time but Maida loved the social life of the school more than anything else and was hard to talk to on serious things. Evie was sitting in the bleach ers of the gymnasium a few days later, her sack of sandwiches in her lap, when Maida suddenly appeared and sat down by her. She carried with her a lunch half-eaten. “ Look,” she said to Evie, showing her one of the tracts, “ I got this in the mail one day and I’ve "been carry ing it around because it smells so nice. It’s the best sachet I’ve ever had,” and she laughed as she held it out. Evie took the offered tract, not knowing just what to say for the moment. “Mother read it,” went on Maida, and said that whoever sent it was my best friend. She’s been wanting me to be a Christian for a long time but I’ve always been afraid it would spoil my good times. But the more I read that thing the more I think that maybe I should be one.” “Why don’t you do what it says then,” asked Evie, “ and accept Christ as your Saviour?” “What I want to know first,” said Maida, looking searchingly at Evie, “ is who sent me the tract? If it was my best friend it must be someone I know and most of the girls seemed to get them too.' Evie, did you send it to me?” Evie knew she had to answer the question but she was fearful how Maida might take it. Handing the tract back to Maida she said quietly, “ Yes, I sent it to you.” “Good,” said Maida smiling, “ then like Mother says you must be my best friend. Will you go to church with me Sunday so I can find out more about this?” Evie happily agreed to go, knowing in her heart that here was one of the answers to her prayers. But as well as things were going, even Evie was not prepared for the next turn of the trail of the French perfume. She had just undressed for bed, said her prayers and jumped into bed when her sister Frances came into the room. Frances was a year older and shared the room with Evie. The two girls had grown to be very close and shared many confidences, J U L Y , 1 9 5 0
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