The influence of a tract or of a good book can not be estimated. Rev. J.
Hudson Taylor, of the China Inland Mission, was converted in boyhood
through reading a gospel tract which he found in his father's library.
"He had been frequently troubled about his soul, and had again and again
tried to become a Christian, but had failed so often that he had
concluded that there was no use in trying any more."

An agent of the American Tract Society relates the following:

"A man on a canal-boat received a tract, but to show his contempt for
the tract and its giver, took out his penknife and cut it up into
fantastic shapes. Then he held it up to the derision of the company.

"In tearing it apart, one of the pieces clung to his knee. His eyes were
attracted by the only word on it--'eternity.' He turned it over, and
there was the word 'God.'

"These ideas remained in his mind. He tried to laugh them off; then to
drink, to play cards in order to banish them. But they still clung to
him, and plagued him till he sought God and preparation for eternity."

There is an old true story about a tract, that should be told over and
over again:

A Puritan minister named Sibbs wrote a tract called "The Bruised Reed."
A copy of this was given by a humble layman to a little boy at whose
father's house he had been entertained over night. That boy was Richard
Baxter, and the book was the means of his conversion. Baxter wrote his
"Call to the Unconverted," and among the multitude led to Christ by it
was Philip Doddridge. Doddridge wrote "The Rise and Progress of Religion