How to Use Tracts in Evangelism

The indiscriminate use of tracts by those whose zeal exceeds their wisdom has led many good people to have a strong prejudice against them. The character of the tracts used has also strengthened this prejudice.
Some tracts are so antiquated as to be almost useless in the present age. They were good in their day, but their day has gone by. Others are so lacking in pith, point or power as to be of little value. To use a modern phrase, they do not “get there.” Others still are so offensive in style as to defeat the very end for which they were written.
It is foolish, however, to allow prejudice against poor tracts to blind us to the value of good ones. And good ones can be had. The choicest thoughts of the best writers can now be found in leaflet form, and there is moral dynamite enough in some of them to shatter terribly the strongholds of Satan. Indeed, the Bible itself is only a collection of sixty-six little tracts bound in one volume; for, as someone has said, “holy men of God wrote small books on great subjects.”