Encouragement to Seed Sowers

By Dr. A. J. Gordon

On one occasion, as Leigh Richmond was traveling by coach, the passengers got out to walk a bit and lighten the horses, as well as to enjoy the magnificent prospect, and he began to give a tract to every wayfarer he met. One of his fellow-travelers smiled derisively as he saw a tract treated contemptuously by the receiver, torn in two and thrown down on the road. "See how your tract has been used," said he; "there is one, at least, quite lost."

"I am not so sure of that," replied Mr. Richmond; "at any rate the husbandman sows not less because some of the seed may be trodden down."

When they turned around at the top of the hill to take another look at the scene before mounting the coach, they saw distinctly the fate of the little tract. A puff of wind had carried it over the hedge into a hayfield where a number of haymakers were seated and listening to said tract which one of their number had found. He was observed carefully joining together the two parts which had been torn asunder, but were held together by a thread. The devil had done his work imperfectly; for instead of tearing the tract to tatters his agent had left it still available for use, a little pains sufficing to make it legible. Thus the poor man who had torn the tract in two was the means of its being read by a whole band of haymakers instead of by a single individual. But this was not all - the reader of the torn tract was led to reflection and prayer, and subsequently became an earnest Christian and tract distributor himself. Of the company that were with him in the field, three became, within twelve months, diligent laborers in their neighborhood on behalf of the truth as it is in Christ.

DID YOU KNOW?

THAT: You can probably witness to more unsaved people than ever before through tracts.

THAT: You do not need to leave your own home to do this.

THAT: Some evangelists spend many hours mailing tracts as they believe they reach more unsaved than will come to an evangelistic meeting.

THAT: Western Tract Mission has a time proven method of reaching the unsaved through mailing of tracts.

THAT: THIS MAY BE FOR YOU!

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Saskatoon, Sask. S7L OV5

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