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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 22, 1885

The Torn Tract.

LEIGH RICHMOND, in walking up a hill, to relieve the horses of the coach in which he was traveling, distributed several tracts to such persons as he chanced to meet. One was received and torn in two, and thrown upon the ground. A fellow-traveler smiled and said:—

'See how your tract is treated; there is one, at least, quite lost!'

'I am not so sure of that,' said Mr. Richmond; 'at any rate, the husbandman sows not the less that some of the seeds may be trodden down.'

Reaching the top of the hill, and turning round to view the scenery, they saw that the wind had carried the torn tract over into the field among the haymakers, and that one of them was reading it to the others. The devil had done his work imperfectly, as the two parts of the tract were held together by a thread; and in hindering one man from reading it, he had introduced it to a whole company. The reader of the tract was led to reflection and prayer; and became an earnest Christian and tract distributer. Three others soon became diligent laborers in the Master's vineyard.

Pass the tracts along; they will not be lost! —Sel.