p. 592 | Sadly Disappointed by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 2, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 37.

Sadly Disappointed.

By Editor

A GENTLEMAN in the southern part of the State who has received a few of our tracts writes thus:

"I received your tracts, and am much disappointed. There is the same thing over and over. I have learned nothing outside of the Bible. I supposed your learned body of writers could write a few tracts without all running into the same old beaten track."

While he is disappointed, we are very much pleased, for two reasons. First, we are glad that our friend is so well read in the Bible, that in reading our tracts he could find nothing new. If he practices all he knows, he is not far from the kingdom of God. And second, we are glad that a reader cannot find anything in our writings different from what the Bible contains. This is the highest compliment that could be given them. We have no ambition to get outside that "old beaten track," but desire, by continual repetition, to induce others to seek the "old paths," and to walk therein.