[From an Appeal by the Andrew and Philip Society, Washington, D. C.] THE day is gone by when the world is going to the church for the Gospel. The time has come when the church must carry the Gospel to the world. The church member who is not an evangelist is missing his opportunities and mistaking his calling. It is not necessary that all should address audiences. The quiet evangelism which makes no parade of its purposes, plans, or doings, is often wonderfully effective. It has been estimated that if there were only one Christian in the world, and he worked a year and won a friend for Christ, and if these two continued each year to win another, and if every man thus led into the kingdom of Christ led another every year, in thirty-one years every person in the world would be converted. As Drummond so truly declares, "Every atom in the universe can act on every other atom, but only through the atom next it. And if a man would act upon every other man he can do so best by acting, one at a time, upon those beside him." If you have found Christ, go, like Andrew and Philip, and tell some one else about Him; that He came to "save His people from their sins;" that there is none other way of salvation. He is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life." "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." The greater portion of the people seldom, if ever, enter a church. Especially is this true of the working classes. We must wake up to the painful fact that a large part of our population has drifted entirely away from the old views of truth and duty, and the only way to reach them is to carry the Gospel to them where they are. For the earnest Christian who knows the value and joys of salvation there are various ways of winning souls, and one most excellent, efficient way is the judicious use of choicest tracts and most select cards and leaflets. Many a soul, after sermons had failed, has been awakened and enlightened by reading one of these silent messengers. Richard Gibbs wrote a tract entitled "The Bruised Reed;" a tin peddler gave it to a boy named Richard Baxter; through reading it he was brought to Christ. He wrote "A Call to the Unconverted." Among the thousands saved through it was Philip Doddridge, who wrote "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul." It fell into the hand of William Wilberforce, the great emancipator of the slaves in the British colonies, and led him to Christ. Wilberforce wrote "A Practical View of Christianity," which fired the heart of Leigh Richmond. He wrote "The Dairyman's Daughter." Before 1849 as many as four million copies were circulated, and it has testified for Christ in over fifty different languages. Before he died Dr. Chickering, author of the Christian Life Card, had the names of over 1700 who had written or told him they attributed their conversion, mainly to that leaflet. He was also told by a physician that in three different cities, at intervals of about a year, some one put into his pocket without his knowledge, a little blue card containing the words, "Have you a home in heaven, where the angels are?" etc. The first two cards set him thinking, but the third, coming soon after he had lost his mother, led him to Christ. No one of the three people knew that they were supplementing each other's work, and yet they were. We shall never know all the good which comes from this kind of silent preaching, but we know enough to make it almost criminal for us to neglect it. There are many ways in which tracts may be used. Enclose them in letters, circulars, packages, and library books. Lay them on the table in your parlor and guest chamber. Toss them into the saloon. Use them at the entrance and on the outside of fairs, races, circuses, and theaters. Leave them in the cars or hotels. Give them to the bootblack or newsboy. Drop them at the doorstep or sidewalk. Give them to the postman, the policeman, the meatman, the milkman. Enclose them in parcels of merchandise from your store. Give them to your customers, your neighbors, and your employees in city, town, and country. Give them to the boys and girls as they go home from school, and to the operatives going to and from the factory. Leaflets sometimes open the way for conversation, and often they are better than spoken words; besides, you can send these messengers to places where you can not conveniently go yourself, and a regular, constant habit of sending them by mail would be the means of turning many sinners to salvation. "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever."