Great Results From a Small Beginning.
How an extensive system of tract distribution along the railroad lines of North Germany began, is told in the following extract from a letter written by a recent visitor to Germany: "Otto Finger is one of the most indefatigable tract distributors I ever met. Some years ago he threw a tract from a railway carriage to one of the railway watchmen. The train was slowly approaching a station, and, to his surprise, the man sprang on the step of the carriage, thanked him for the tract, and pleaded most touchingly that something might be done for his comrades, of whom it might truly be said that no man cared for their souls. They are stationed in watch-houses, at short intervals, all along the railway lines, and their duty is to keep a constant watch on the lines, so as to prevent accidents. Their work is severe, and their opportunities for getting away to where they might hear the gospel are few indeed. Mr. Finger was deeply moved by this appeal, and soon after commenced a work which has now extended to more than eighty-six lines of railway in North Germany. He has established a sort of circulating system, by which a fresh supply of good reading is sent regularly every week from the head termini of these railways, and passed down the lines as they are read, from watch-house to watch-house, to the end of the line, whence it is returned to him direct, to take its place on a fresh line. Recently a new field has been opened, the heads of the postal service having given permission to Mr. Finger to send papers to all the employes in Dresden and its neighborhood, giving every facility for their distribution, and sending the packets post free."—Sel.