p. 152 | Received by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 16, 1878

Received.

By Editor

Copies of the Italian tract, Il Sabato della Bibbia, published in Bâle, Switzerland, were received at this Office a few days since. This tract is a neat thirty-two page, on the subject of the Bible Sabbath. It contains a list of tracts published in the French and Italian languages. We rejoice to know the light of Bible truth is spreading among the different nations, and as we see these tracts published in the various languages, we are reminded of the words of a popular writer upon their mission:—

"> It is my conviction that more will have to be done through the press. Tracts can go everywhere. Tracts know no fear. Tracts never tire. Tracts never die. Tracts can be multiplied without end by the press. Tracts can travel at little expense. They run up and down like angels of God; blessing all, giving to all, and asking no gift in return. They can talk to one as well as a multitude; and to a multitude as well as to one. They require no public room to tell their story in. They can tell it in the kitchen or the shop, the parlor or the closet, in the railway carriage or in the omnibus, on the broad highway or in the footpath through the fields. They take no note of scoffs, or jeers, or taunts. No one can betray them into hasty or random expressions. Though they will not always answer questions, they will tell their story twice, or thrice, or four times over, if you wish them. And they can be made to speak on every subject, and on every subject they may be made to speak wisely and well. They can, in short, be made vehicles of all truth, teachers of all classes, the benefactors of all lands."