Scatter Good Books and Tracts
By W. M. Adams
THERE is no work that excels that of distributing the books, tracts, and papers containing the truths for this time. All can to a greater or lesser extent have part in this important work. For the encouragement of every effort put forth in this direction, I quote a part of a letter written by a brother who has kept the Sabbath for several months as the result of a faithful canvasser's work. The brother says: “A member of our German colony has a book entitled ‘Bible Readings for the Home Circle,’ and another got ‘Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation’ from a man who is going from house to house. These two books made their way through the colony, so we learned the right way of God and his Word. . . . It is eight months since eight of our families began to keep the Sabbath.” One of this number is a Lutheran minister. “Can we not thank God, who is watering the seeds of truth sown, and take new courage?” Dr. Gamble, who is so bitterly opposed to our work and our literature, makes this statement in his book: “More than half of the Christian homes in the West, so far as I have been able to learn in fourteen thousand three hundred miles of travel, have from one to five of these books in their libraries.” So let us continue to sow the good seed beside all waters. Let every one of God's children do something, and do it now. With our literature “humble, faithful men are to go forth as colporteur evangelists, bearing the truth to many who otherwise would never be enlightened.”