TRACTS AND ORANGES by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1880

TRACTS AND ORANGES.

By Editor

Bro. Loughborough reports the following interesting item from Southampton, Eng.:—

A ship returned from the West Indies to this port. In the cargo consigned to London was a lot of oranges. The ship-keeper (who helps us distribute tracts), in re-arranging the box of oranges, found in the box a copy of the tract, "Who Changed the Sabbath?" This had been to the orange groves. It appeared to have been read, and carefully laid in the box to go to some one else. The ship-keeper put several more of our tracts with it, carefully nailed up the box, and let it go on to its destination. That tract has now crossed the Atlantic three times. Who will receive it at last? And what will be its effect? What convictions it may have raised before finding its place in the orange box, the Judgment alone can tell. Forwarding our tracts in this way reminds me of the Bibles sent by Wm. Tyndale to England in sacks of grain.