A TRACT, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
An incident comes to us from Miss Elizabeth Lawrence, of the Baptist Mission, Burma, which illustrates what is often called in question, the power of the truth in many instances to lead men to a new life of faith in Christ, apart from the personal teacher, and which also affords encouragement to those who do not see the fruit of their labors to hope that in some cases the seed cast on the waters or in the face of the winds may bring forth manifold. Miss Lawrence may relate her own story. She travels far into the jungle often, where the face of no other white woman was ever seen to work in heathen villages; and also among the churches, holding meetings with the women and children, and aiding the native pastors by Bible readings in the church. At the time referred to above she wrote:— “Just now I am rejoicing over nine converts in a heathen village some thirty miles away from all Christian influences, who were brought to the light by the grandfather in one household reading a tract called ‘The Awakener,’ which was picked up under a rest-house by the wayside some fifteen miles away from their village, and carried to him by one who could not read. Altho the tract was much soiled and some of the leaves gone, the Holy Spirit used it to his salvation and that of his household of six adults, and another household, a man and wife, and they are teaching their little ones the right way. After reading the tract two men were sent to Belin, the town near which the tract was found, to inquire for the teacher of this religion; and, finding I had returned here, they took a little boat (it being in the rains) and came seeking me, but the Buddhists here hearing what they were seeking for turned12them aside, saying the teacher lived a long distance away still, so they were discouraged and returned home. “The next dry season, when they met a blacksmith from Thaton, they inquired of him, and he told them where they would find the Christian teacher, and so the two men came again, and found the mission house, and drank in the truth, and when they returned, two of our preachers went with them to instruct them more in the way.”—Missionary Review.