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Everybody Uses Tracts; Why Not You? [Continued from Page 171] Gibbs. Unique among the tracts he uses Is a representa tion of an insurance policy (cleverly compiled by a Gideon) issued by “The Eternal Life Insurance Com pany,” purporting to insure “whosoever will believe” (John 3:16) for “the term of Eternity” (John 10:28). In central Pennsylvania, Mrs. Dewey Chilcote, like hundreds of other housewives, keeps a supply of tracts and Gospels within easy reach of the door so that she can quickly hand to delivery man, agent, or tramp the message of the Lord. Mr. W. A. Upton o f Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly 85 years of age, has spent the last several years tramp ing all over the city distributing tracts and witnessing. He has covered the entire city once and half of it the second time. Are Young People Interested? Some of the best tract evangelists in the world are young people, many of high school and college age—God fearing, Bible-loving, born-again young people—like Ed and Evie Martin, now touring army camps for the Pocket Testament League. A young couple from The New Tribes Mission recently won seven men to the Lord at the Pa cific Garden Mission through tract distribution. Gus Graziano, who works in a huge defense plant, sows the good seed of the Word by way of tracts. He also sup plies his fellow workers with appropriate gospel litera ture to send to their loved ones on the battle fronts. “Jackie” McKinstry, high school girl, who receives tracts from her Sunday school teacher every other Sunday, saves them until she has a quantity. Then she punches holes in them, fastens them into a small loose-leaf note book, and sends the book overseas to her brother in Burma. Kenneth Larson of Rockford, Illinois, has designed good- looking tract holders, by way of which he and his helpers manage to distribute one thousand tracts a week in three railroad stations and the union bus depot. Some girls and fellows slip tracts into parked cars at football games or on Main Street Saturday nights. Some, led by experienced older persons, give out tracts in hos pitals, jails and in street meetings. Other brave souls stand outside amusement hoqses and distribute tracts to the crowds pouring out. One group went so far as to in vade a tavern. With the manager’s permission, they set up a folding organ, sang, testified and gave each cus tomer a tract. One college student bought hundreds of copies of “Life Begins For a College Boy,” put them and °ther tracts into envelopes labeled conspicuously "For You/' and delivered one at every house in town. Many young people carry tracts wherever they go and pass them out to gas station attendants, store clerks, street car conductors, fellow passengers in trains, teachers at school, waitresses and servicemen and women on the street. New missionaries who have not learned the languages of their fields are able to do effective wit nessing by tract distribution. Members of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship at the University of Illinois are mailing copies of “Four Things God Wants You To Know” to the 9,000 students, faculty and staff'members there. Right now, in numbers of cities, young people are banding together to set up chapters of the Tract Club of America, so that they may receive good tracts regularly and be instructed and encouraged in distributing them. Many groups are attempting to cover their whole com munity with tracts once a month. Do you want to win souls but find it difficult to talk to people? Be a tract-distributor! Equip yourself with the best written and the mcst attractive looking tracts you can secure, and, with prayer in your heart, as a sower go forth to sow! God Himself will give the increase!
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younger children. There will be a two-weeks intensive service, preceded and succeeded by the Youth for Christ movement that is working in this district. We now have every grade in the Anaheim schools, in cluding High School; and in the surrounding territory— a total of 23 schools, for Released Time instruction. In the grand total for all the schools, we find that 2,304 students were enrolled, and from November 3 to De cember 1, (one month) 6,901 were in attendance. This planned summer work will tie right in with the Released Time program. We found last summer that many of the children contacted during the school year, came to the Summer Bible School where the theme was evangelistic and where the "net” could be drawn. Again we say, the Lockman Foundation is the Lord’s organization. We do not own one cent: it belongs en tirely to Him, and we are the agents. We do not know any reason why He should have chosen us for the work, except that He “ takes the foolish things to confound the wise.” I am a farmer. A farmer is patient; he knows when he sows good seed, a harvest will result. He does not dig the seed up to see if it is going to grow! We sow the seed: the harvest is the Lord’s. Are the conditions good? Think of it! In our Sum mer Bible Schools last summer, out of an enrollment of 3,609 there were 870 decisions for Christ. You won’t find this ratio in any other age group, anywhere. We wish that all might have this vision. The youth of today are referred to as the “ lost generation.” But again we say that boys and girls are living by the only standard they know. God has made it possible to reach the youth through Released Time education. They are hungry for it. They accept it without question. We may never have this chance again. “Lord, give us the youth.”
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