Scatter the Tracks by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 30, 1878

“Scatter the Tracks.”

By Editor

THUS writes an earnest worker in the missionary cause. While it is evident that he meant to say “tracts,” he wasn’t, after all, so far out of the way in putting in by a slip of the pen a k for a t, and giving us “tracks.” The cause of religion needs not only a wide circulation of books and tracts, but it needs the presence and efforts of the personal laborer. Missionaries must go into the field themselves, to visit, converse, exhort, and pray with those who need their labors; and such persons should make “tracks.” They should make their mark wherever they go, enlisting sympathy, dispelling darkness, creating an interest in the truth, and spreading light and blessings all along their way. More “tracks” of this kind are needed. Hence we join with the writer and earnestly appeal to all to “scatter the tracks.”