What a Tract may Do

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

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

What a Tract may Do.

EXPERIENCE OF BRO. AND SR. MCMILLAN.

Bro. John McMillan, of St. Croix Co., Wis., writes as follows, Jan. 1, 1870:

“Five years ago to-day, my companion and myself cut loose from our moorings in the Presbyterian harbor, and, by faith in God, launched out on the sea of present truth as far as we then understood it, resolved to add to our ‘faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,’ &c., to the end. We had never seen a Seventh-day Adventist that we knew of, nor did we know that there was one within a hundred miles of us.

“I had seen part of a leaf of a tract on the Sabbath, which I picked up in an army hospital. The leaf had been torn diagonally; but there was enough left to cause me to search the Scriptures, as I had never done before.

“We sundered ties fraternal and social, but not without prayers and tears. And, praise the Lord! we have never longed to return to Egypt. We have no cause to boast of our labors, but much cause to confess misimprovement of our privileges. Through the labors of Eld. Steward, and the distribution of tracts, the majority of those living in the county have heard or read something of the ‘strange doctrine.’ About twenty have embraced it. Many more are convinced, but are waiting ‘a more convenient season’ to put the theory into practice. Alas, for many such! The trump of God alone shall arouse them from their lethargy!”