“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.” Ecclesiastes 11:6 (KJV
Moments for you from Moments With The Book Vol. 55, 1st quarter, 2011
“The circulation of tracts as a means of preaching the Gospel is actually older than the art of printing. Wycliffe, the reformer, was a great writer and distributor of tracts, employing his pupils and friends to multiply copies by hand. Martin Luther was a worker through tracts as well, but with the help of the printing press in the spreading of Gospel tracts.
All these years our God has been watching over these silent messengers, and, no one but the Lord Himself can tell into how many hands they have fallen, and how many hearts have been moved to receive the truth as to God’s salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Gospel tracts have the amazing ability to deliver their message to many souls that the distributor of the tract will never even meet. Hudson Taylor, who was used of the Lord to reach countless souls in China, is an excellent example of this.
One day while seeking something to read, Hudson turned over a basket of tracts in his father’s library and selected one that looked interesting. While reading it he was struck with the phrase, ‘The Finished work of Christ.’ Immediately the words attracted his attention. ‘What was finished?’ he asked himself. Reading further, the tract explained the finished work as ‘a full and perfect atonement and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world.’
Then Hudson thought, ‘If the whole work was finished on the cross of Calvary, and the whole debt of sin pain, what is there left for me to do?’ Hudson was thus convinced, as the light of God’s truth flashed into his soul by the Holy Spirit, ‘There was nothing to be done but to fall down on my knees and accept the Saviour and His salvation and praise Him forever.’
Do we realize the extraordinary dynamic of the printed page? Dr. Goodell, of the American board of missions, passed through Nicodemia, Turkey, in 1832. Having no time to stop or preach, he left a gospel paper with a stranger along the street. Seventeen years later he visited the area again, and found a Christian community of more than 200 members.
The life is not in the sower, but in the seed. Divine literature is somewhat like thistledown, precious seed which is blown by the winds of the Spirit, and floats over the world. When this precious seed finds good ground, it produces fruit.
The printed page is deathless: you can destroy one copy, but the press will produce millions more. Its very mutilation can be its sowing. Discarded tracts have been used to save many lost souls. Even torn and shredded tracts—fragments containing only two words—have been used by the Lord.
The printed page never flinches, never shows cowardice. It is never tempted to compromise. It never tires and never grows disheartened. It travels cheaply, requires no stage, and works while we sleep. It never loses its temper and it works long after we have passed on. the printed page is a visitor which gets inside the home and stays there. It always catches a person in the right mood, for it speaks only when it is being read. It always sticks to what it has said, and never answers back.
I, Jean, am presently placing them, and other tracts from Good News Publishers www.goodnewspublishers.org) in a plastic with Gospels of John from The Pocket testament League, (www.ptl.org ) and a bookmark I’ve made, and my personal card. I’m encouraging others to start their own effort to get the Word out and in the hands of many who need the Redemption story shared with them! I trust that you will look into doing this, too.
www.ClearBags.com B64B for the bags I use. I make bookmarks from real flowers and leaves, and then make prints..
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