| Did
You Get One Of
These?
-Why do we hand
out tracts?
The
Prince of
Preachers, Charles
Spurgeon,
explained it
best:
I
well remember
distributing
them in a town
in England where
tracts had never
been distributed
before, and
going from house
to house, and
telling in
humble language
the things of
the kingdom of
God. I
might have done
nothing, if I
had not been
encouraged by
finding myself
able to do
something...[Tracts
are] adapted to
those persons
who have but
little power and
little ability,
but
nevertheless,
wish to do
something for
Christ.
They may not
have the tongue
of the eloquent,
but they may
have the hand of
the diligent.
They cannot
stand and
preach, but they
can stand and
distribute here
and there these
silent
preachers...They
may buy their
thousand tracts,
and these they
can distribute
broadcast.
I
look upon the
giving away of a
religious tract
as only the
first step for
action not to be
compared with
many another
deed done for
Christ; but were
it not for the
first step we
might never
reach to the
second, but that
first attained,
we are
encouraged to
take another,
and so at the
last...There is
a real service
of Christ in the
distribution of
the gospel in
its printed
form, a service
the result of
which heaven
alone shall
disclose, and
the judgment day
alone discover.
How many
thousands have
been carried to
heaven
instrumentally
upon the wings
of these tracts,
none can tell.
I
might say, if it
were right to
quote such a
Scripture,
"The leaves
were for the
healing of the
nations"
-verily they are
so.
Scattered where
the whole tree
could scarcely
be carried, the
very leaves have
had a medicinal
and a healing
virtue in them
and the real
word of truth,
the simple
statement of a
Savior crucified
and of a sinner
who shall be
saved by simply
trusting in the
Savior, has been
greatly blessed,
and many
thousand souls
have been led
into the kingdom
of heaven by
this simple
means. Let
each one of us,
if we have done
nothing for
Christ, begin to
do something
now. The
distribution of
tracts is the
first thing. |
