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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 30, 1871

Tracts by Mail.

Few dare to approach the rich and great on the subject of personal salvation. This fact was deeply felt by a little praying band in England, and it was resolved to send tracts to them through the mail, with no name affixed, hoping thus to avoid offense.

A gentleman of rank, but very profligate, received with his morning’s letters a tract with the title “Prepare to meet thy God.”

He looked at it with scorn and indignation, and wondered “who could have had the impudence to send him that.” With an oath he arose to put it into the fire. But on second thought he determined to inclose it in a fresh envelope, and send it anonymously to his friend B———. “It would be such a good joke,” he said.

So the tract was once more mailed and received in much the same spirit as before. But it was read, and the Spirit of God accompanied it. The scoffer and worldling was hopefully changed in heart and life. In the fullness of his heart he longed to do something for his old companions in sin. He once more sent the little tract on its way to another of the circle to which he formerly belonged, and it pleased God to honor it with a similar success.

This is a means of doing good open to all. There are none so high in rank but they may be thus approached, and that, too, with less offense than by almost any other method.

Paul, with his consummate skill and boldness than in preaching the truth, felt the appropriateness of varying his method according to the class addressed; “but privately to them of reputation.”

When you feel impelled to send such a message to another, regard it as a suggestion of the Holy Spirit, and do not be disobedient to his voice. He can go with and bless the smallest effort for souls, and has often used the feeblest instruments for bringing about the most glorious results.—S. S. Times.