“Like the Leaves of Autumn”
By M. Eugenie McKee
For a long time past I have thought about the statement that “our tracts should be scattered like the leaves of autumn.” I wondered how this could be done. But with God “nothing is impossible;” and on the strength of this statement I fell to musing, as I sat where leaves from the trees were being hurled hither and thither by the wind. Some were piled by the garden fence, some heaped up in the corners; there were leaves among the vines, by the doorways, and under the porch; some found lodgment in the rafters, one was clinging to a spider’s web over the porch, and one or two in a deserted bird’s nest; some were found in an old shoe in a pile of rubbish; and as I swept this morning, I remembered some had hidden behind the half door. Now, I thought, it is all plain to me how our tracts can be scattered like the leaves of autumn, and I thank God that a movement is being made to accomplish this work. We who are interested may be used as God’s agents, like the wind, to place these silent messengers of truth in the most obscure places as well as in the public places, where they will be received and read by the sincere and honest searcher after truth. Dear friends, it is a blessed privilege to be co-workers with “the angels, who are sent to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation.” As I go out, I realize that it is an important work, and divine guidance is necessary to success. We will not scatter our precious reading-matter to the winds, and then watch it blow away, as the leaves are tossed to and fro; but the Holy Spirit will impress us when, and how, and where to dispose of the tracts; our prayers will go with every one, and God will take care of the result. The tracts will find lodgment in palaces and in huts, in stately dwellings and in humble cottages. They will bring God’s truth for these last days to every soul who reads them, and be to them a savor of life or death. Solemn thought! Destruction is coming upon the scoffers and the sinners, the world is to be warned, and Christ’s words be fulfilled — one to be taken, another left. Let us hasten, do our work faithfully, and share in the reward.—M. Eugenie McKee, in Southern Watchman.