St. Gerdt
Puritan Board Freshman
We've added 5 new free downloads to our young, but growing, tract library (https://www.grangepress.com/tract-catalog/):
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On a personal note,
The modern tract - WHAT HAS HAPPENED? The tract was a driving force in the Reformation ("The Gospellers of these days do fill the realm with so many of their noisome little books, that they be like to the swarms of locusts which did infest the land of Egypt") and has been an incredibly sharp and effective tool in evangelism since the invention of the printing press. . .
But the modern tract (I speak broadly) has lost its substance and been reduced to a gimmick, as if people must be tricked into taking and reading it; and as if they are only barely literate; and, most grievously, as if a man must be convinced by persuasion or reason, and not the Holy Spirit, to respond in faith to the gospel. What was once the substance of a tract, we now make into a booklet (or even a book!), and we more often sell it for a profit amongst ourselves than we give it away freely in the street to those who need it most.
So take these and print them. They'll cost you 3 cents per page at home or 10 cents per page at the copy shop. Then give them away until they fill the realm. And if you know of any that we can add to our free library, please send them along!
- Distinguishing Faith & Feelings, by Samuel Pike (Christian Living) - From Religious Cases of Conscience (1755), by Samuel Pike and Samuel Hayward, ministers at London, England.
- Materials for Daily Intercessory Prayer, by Robert Wodrow (Christian Living) - To my knowledge, this work has been out of print since 1861. It remains very good instruction in prayer for the believer.
- The Sanctification of the Sabbath, by Thomas Boston (Christian Living) - From An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion, published posthumously in 1773.
- A Word to the Anxious, by Kenneth MacRae (Gospel) - A very simple, concise summary of saving faith (Acts 16:31).
- The Young Communicant's Catechism, by John Willison (Christian Living) - A proposal for young communicants, for expressly renewing the baptismal engagements, before their first admission to the Lord’s table.
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On a personal note,
The modern tract - WHAT HAS HAPPENED? The tract was a driving force in the Reformation ("The Gospellers of these days do fill the realm with so many of their noisome little books, that they be like to the swarms of locusts which did infest the land of Egypt") and has been an incredibly sharp and effective tool in evangelism since the invention of the printing press. . .
But the modern tract (I speak broadly) has lost its substance and been reduced to a gimmick, as if people must be tricked into taking and reading it; and as if they are only barely literate; and, most grievously, as if a man must be convinced by persuasion or reason, and not the Holy Spirit, to respond in faith to the gospel. What was once the substance of a tract, we now make into a booklet (or even a book!), and we more often sell it for a profit amongst ourselves than we give it away freely in the street to those who need it most.
So take these and print them. They'll cost you 3 cents per page at home or 10 cents per page at the copy shop. Then give them away until they fill the realm. And if you know of any that we can add to our free library, please send them along!
I'm also praying the Lord would allow us to do more of our own free distribution of printed tracts (similar to Chapel Library), in which case also there would be no size constraint
