A Tract and a Prayer by M. Wood

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 10, 1874

A Tract and a Prayer.

By M. Wood

A TRACT, of itself, is of but little value; but if God’s blessing rests upon it to the converting of one soul, that tract has proved a world of good. We cannot bless our own efforts any more than we can cause the seed sown in the earth to take root. We are wholly dependent upon God, and did we realize it more fully, and learn to wait patiently until his blessing was poured out upon our labors, we should see more accomplished in the T. & M. Societies than is now made manifest.

Some two years ago a tract was given to a lady in this neighborhood, accompanied with a prayer that God’s blessing might attend it. A few months ago this lady took her stand with the people of God. She has embraced the whole truth. Her family, who have been bitterly opposed, are now yielding to the Holy Spirit. Our publications, which they would once have spurned as a loathsome thing, they now read with interest.

So the work moves all over the field. We have but to take courage, and buckle on the armor anew, trusting in the Lord and the power of his might. We must be willing to work for ourselves, and then God will work with us, and there will be a wonderful change wrought in our condition. We shall grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth, and become living witnesses for the cause we profess to love.

M. Wood.