Power of Tracts | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 21, 1872

Power of Tracts.

It is my conviction, says the editor of Howett's Journal, that more will have to be done through the press than by any other means. Lecturing and preaching are great things, but they are not alone great. They can do something which the press cannot do; but the press can do much which they cannot do. Tracts can go everywhere.—Tracts never blush. Tracts know no fear. Tracts never stammer. Tracts never stick fast. Tracts never tire. Tracts never die. Tracts can be multiplied without end by the press. Tracts can travel at little expense. They want nothing to eat. They require no lodgings. They run up and down like the angels of God, blessing all, giving to all, and asking no gift in return. You can print tracts of all sizes, on all subjects, in all places, and at all hours. And they can talk to one as well as a multitude, and to a multitude as well as one. They require no public room to tell their story in. They can tell it in the kitchen or the shop, the parlor or the closet, the railway carriage or in the omnibus, on the broad highway or in the footpath through the field; and they dread no noisy or tumultuous interruption.