Tract Distribution

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 9, 1868

Tract Distribution.

Let us not be behind others in a just estimate of the importance of liberal tract distribution in carrying forward the work of the Lord. The Roman Catholics, proverbially shrewd and far seeing in the adoption of means to secure their ends, have adopted this system; and the following paragraph from the Examiner and Chronicle, March, 1868, tells what they are doing:—

“The Catholics are availing themselves of the tract system to defend their church, and extend their system. They have had printed a series of tracts, got up in elegant style, of four pages each, which are distributed with a lavish hand in the cars, omnibuses, and places of business. These tracts defend the Catholics from the charge that they prohibit the use of the Bible; that priests can pardon sin; that permission is given to commit sin; that the Virgin is put in the place of the Saviour; and that Catholics worship images. The tracts close with the declaration, ‘Americans love fair play.’ The new movement may teach Protestants something.”