The Ohio Independent Baptist, August 1962

• • • I of t/1. Tl, e i 11 fl.11 11 • of a li ttle lra,·t , rinte , age 0(, \\ L real i1c t l1c c,tr ,1orti i nnr, ti\ n- • ar111c ,..1f tl1c r1rintcd r1agc? Dr . 10 dell, i1 .. 1 • 111g t hr<.1t1gh ic dcn1i a in l c 32. 11 .. 1, 1ng 110 t1r11e t • t p. left \\ ith a "tr.Jngt:r a op) f ' 'The Dair 1 n1an, D .. 1t1ghter:· in the Ar1nenian-Turki h - langt1ag e, en teen 1 ear after he , i"ited _ ic de111ia. and f Lind a cht1rch f n1 re than 40 n1ember , and a Pr te ~tant c n1n1t1nity of more than 200. Dr. riffith John tell of eight ht1r he reared in China by tract al ne. ir Barthe Frere, traveling in lndi a. \va amazed to find a mall t \\ n in which the idol brine and temple were empty but the town folk profe ed the Chri tian faith. It tran - pired that ome year earlier one of the tO\\'n folk had been given an old garment b) an Engli h re ident in a pocket of which, forgotten, lay a go pel portion with eight or nine tract in the vernacular. The life i not in the ower, but in the eed. Even if an infidel cattered the Scrip– ture , he would only be exploding hi own battlements. The printed page F or in cattering divine literatt1re we liberate thi tledown, laden with preciou eed. which, blown by the "' ind of the Spirit, floats over the \\ orld. The printed page never flinch– e , never how cowardice: it i never tempted to compromi e; it never tire never grow di heartened; it travel cheapl}·. and require no hired hall : it \\'Ork while we leep: it never lose it temper· and it work long after we are dead. The printed page i a \'i itor ~ hich gets in ide the home, and ta)' there· it always catches a man 1n the right mood, for it speak to him only when he i reading it. Another powerful rea on for using literature i that the printed page will reach those otherwise utterly un– reachable, and may be the only chance thej' will ever have of eternal life. Some one once gave four copie of H. L. Hasting ' lecture on the in piration of the Bible to four in– f ide] at different time . All four were converted. and became mini ter of Page 4 , AUGUST 1962 lhe go pcl in fot1r liffcrc11t dcnon1in– ati n. . r any clccade. ago a lady ga c s n1e leaflet t two actor. . One of then,. led b)' the tract to attend chL1rch and . o becoming converted, wa Dr. George orimer pastor of Tremont Temple Bo ton . Through hi inflt1ence Rt1 ell H . onwell wa led into the mini try. Thu the Bapti t Temple in Philadelphia, together with the work of the Tremont Temple and the per onal influence of the e two noted peaker , i traceable to one little leaflet in the hand of a woman. Possible influence or can any limit be put to the extent of it pos ible influence. Luther wrote a pamphlet on Galatian which falling into Buyan hand , converted him~ and the I 35th tran lation (in African) of "Pilgrims Progre s ha iust been i ued. More than 150 000 - 000 copie of Spurgeon' sermon have gone into circulation. or i even its political influence mea urable. A young Frenchman who had been wounded at the siege of St. Quentin wa langui hing on a pallet in the ho pital when a tract that lay on the coverlet caught hi eye. He read it and wa converted by it. The monu– ment of that man may be een be– fore the Church of the Con i tory in Pari tanding with a Bible in hi hand Admiral Coligny, the leader of the Reformation in France. But the tract had not yet fini hed it work. It wa read by Coligny's nur e, who placed it in the band of the Lady Abbe and he, too, was con– verted by it. She fled from France to the Palatinate. where be met a young Hollander and became hi wife. The inflL1ence which she had upon that man reacted upon the whole continent of Europe for he wa William of Orange, who became the champion of liberty and Prate tanti m in the etherland6. Ca n't be destroyed The printed page i deathle ; yot1 can de troy one, but the pre can reproduce million : a often a it i REV. DON MOFFAT martyred: it ic; rai sccl~ the rinnlc ta rted hy a given tract can \\.'ictcn clown the cenlLtriec; until it heat t1non the great white throne. Jt5 very mt1t11- ation can be it . owing. When Leigh Richmond was once traveling by coach, pas eng..,r got out to walk and he began to give a tract to everv wayfarer he met. One of his fell ow traveler miled deri ively as he aw a tract treated conten1ptuou ly by the receiver torn in two, and thrown down the road. A puff of wind carried it over a hedge into a hayfield, where a number of haymaker were eated: and soon they were Ii tening to the tract, read by one of their number who had found it. He wa ob erved carefully joining together the two part which had been torn a under , but were held together by a thread. The reader wa led to reflection and prayer and ub equently became an earnest Chri tian and tract di tributor him elf: and of the rest, within a year three became active Cbri t ian worker . - (From Word of Vi ion). Burdened for Africa By Ruth Nephew (Baptist Mid-Missions) Wanted men and women Full of holy fire, R eady for the b,attle, Holy Gho t de ire. Ju t to be a fire brand I n the hand of God, Ju t to follow humbly, Where the Ma ter trod. -Mary Warbuton Booth It has been a long time since I have written, I know. But have been o very bu y at di pen ary, in cla es and even ome village work. The teen– age girl went on a hike in February. Elda Long, fademoi elle Bouchet and I went with them. We stayed Satur– day night in the village . After Su n– day morning ervices, dinner, nap , and a vi it to the witch doctor' com– pound, we came home. I was so glad that Mele Bouchet could go with us. he i a French chool teacher here at Banga ou. Pray that he might The OHIO INDEPENDENT BAPTIST