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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, December 31, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 3

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SCATTER TRACTS.

By JESSE HIESTAND

SCATTERING tracts was forcibly brought to my mind some time since, while waiting at the railroad depot for a train going east, when a train going west, stopped and a large, healthy looking man of Lancaster Co., Pa., jumped off the train and cried out, “Read! gentlemen, read!” and at the same time scattered tracts in every direction to perhaps a hundred persons eager to read. I picked one up, and found it was advertising Mishler’s Herb Bitters.
It then occurred to my mind that if we were as energetic in spreading the last message of mercy to a perishing world, as others are in making money, and destroying souls with their drugs and nostrums, thousands more would soon be rejoicing with us in those glorious truths which we so much love.
A partly torn, dusty tract, first brought light to my mind; and I have scattered more than twenty dollars’ worth of tracts in five years, and I am glad to say that some have received the truth as the result. Scatter tracts; they may enlighten the minds of some honest soul. JESSE HIESTAND.