Circulate the Tracts by WM. PENNIMAN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 15, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, Nos. 8 & 9.

Circulate the Tracts.

By WM. PENNIMAN

LIVING as we are amidst the closing scenes of this world's history, and believing in the near coming of the Lord, with what earnestness and zeal should we engage in this work; and ought we not to use every means in our power to disseminate the truth?

As there is such a great cry for laborers in new

fields, and they cannot at present be sent, let us send forth these silent messengers, and pray that they may go forth with healing in their wings, and, as a forerunner, prepare the way for the living teachers, and for the loud cry of the message. We cannot tell who the honest ones are until they hear the truth; only a few of the great mass will embrace it; then how important it is that there should be a more extensive circulation of the tracts.

We should imitate the example of the good brother in Canada, who went to the Office and laid down the silver dollars upon the counter and exchanged them for the truth. Truly he bought the truth, and it is not likely that he sold it. Do any say, I have not the means, or have but little to give? Then give that little; as where little is given, only little is required. God can bless the widow's mite, if only given in the right spirit.

How great must be the accountability of those men who are heaping up treasures in these last days, and especially of S. D. Adventists. We should not let the rust of our treasures be a witness against us. Oh! that the tracts and papers might go from Battle Creek by the car-load, and pour forth a flood of present truth all over the land. It was the immense circulation of the books and tracts put forth by Luther and the reformers that so greatly accelerated the work of the reformation. Shall we be behind the men of that age, in a work so much more momentous, and with so little time in which to accomplish it.

Brethren, let us be awake. WM. PENNIMAN.