1. It affords work for young converts.
“There is no simpler method with which young converts may begin to engage in Christian work.”
Before ever, the young Christian finds himself able for any other method of public testimony, he will, find here an outlet for his energies.
2. The aged and infirm may engage in it. It need never be departed from, no matter how old or infirm one may become...
“It is a work in which an old convert may end his service for his Lord.”
3. It may be used to open the way for personal dealing. Many Christians would like to do personal work if they knew how to begin. Here, then, is a method. After one has given a tract, it becomes comparatively easy to enter into conversation.
To summarize advantages of tract work we quote the following: “Tracts can go everywhere. Tracts know no fear. Tracts never tire. Tracts can be multiplied without end by the press. Tracts can travel at little expense. They run up and down like the angels of God, blessing all, giving to all, asking no gift in return. They can talk to one as well as to a multitude, and to a multitude as well as to one. They require no public room to tell their story in. They can tell it in the kitchen or the shop, the parlor or the closet, in the railway coach or in the omnibus, or the broad highway or in the footpath through the fields. They take no note of scoffs, or jeers, or taunts. No one can betray them into hasty or random expressions. Though they will not always answer questions, they will tell their stories twice or thrice or four times if you wish them. And they can be made to speak on every subject, and on every subject they may be made to speak wisely and well. They can, in short, be made the vehicles of truth, the teachers of all classes, the benefactors of all saints.”