The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-07
FREE TRACTS BY The MILLION.
TIE DEMAND ron THEN CDNFS
FROM W4NI' sol RCES.
One Concern In New York Prints Them
In . Score OF Language Missionary
Fields In This Country Hannah Niore's
Tracts sim Among the Most Popular.

Fec PIE may ro' lear 20 much about
tracts as about some other books but Il
does Lot follow by any means hat this
trsI CHI of tie publishing business doesn
snlo'u.t TO a great deal
H. the home department Of the soc.etv
there have been printed and distributed
in the seyeL ty-seven years Of tie sooicty's
existence iis ,35l ,.S2 coTies Of tracts. said
ar officer # he American Tract Society
Hat -epleseLts q circulation OF more n an
S,23o,C0O 600 rages
The demand for tracts is by no means
decreasing, either. In fact. We are kept
busy printing and distributing hem. Las,
.ear We printed 1890 copies. contain u &
H. all more than 100000 pages
In round Luml ers We have published
about 5000 dinerel' tracts a. our home
Office AID in other laids We have aided
in The publication Of some 1000 more. In
oil 1855 different languages ard dialects
have teen employed in giving the meai.ir &
of the tracts to the peoples of the earth
lie greatest dcmaI d, out side Of tracts
Published in the English language, is for
tracts in German, French, Italian, Spanish,
Welsh, Dutch Swedish, Bohemian, Hun
gar.an, Fin. sh, Polish, German Hebrew
w here does the demand for all these
tracts come from" he was asked.
From all sorts Of sources was the
ar swer There are mauy iLdiS al
religious workers who ge, them To dis
tribute among those who wait 20 reform
or to stay reformed. The evangelist
preachers distribute thousands every year.
Our OWL co,por'euls FL d a demand
for other thousands Have YOU ever seen
our mission AIRY az the Immigrant station
o. Ellis Island? Well he distributes 10
our Lew frie. DIT hundred, Of tracts, of
which he has an assortment printed Ia a
score of foreign tongues.
You see there are tracts desi gned fer
many puTposes-fcr be- Us and gris. for the
Temperance cause, for purely evange istic
work, for devotional work, for working
girls, for soldiers, for sailors, fer spccia
occasions, such as Easter or Christmas
IL is easy then 10 unGerst and hat the de-
mand comes from a variety e souTcos
Here are some applications which have
come 10 us for tracts, to be distributed
free: From the leader Cf n district CT nfer.
enoe, from church for colored folks dow
South, from woman who says the poor IL
Virginia need them, from a man who i.
working among some striking laborers
from the managers Of a hospital. from Q
man who Is working among the Mormons
from man who wants 10 educate some
detained Chinese on the Canadian bcrd, r
To show You polyglot request is easy
Here is one from n man AZ Carbonate,
Wash, who wants tracts in Welsh, German
Italian and Finnish
Here Is another from a schoolteacher
awoman, who is out West among he cattle
men. She write E that they ale often ignor
ant Of even the coming e Sunday. Sucl
IL their life. Here is another from prlsoi
chaplain, who says our tracts often talk e
prisoner when the minister's words ne
deaf ear"
The NEST popular Of the tracts printed
e'e the DaiIyman's Daughter" by tn,
I,av. Leigh Richmond The Shepherd a
Salisbury Plain which was Written l.,
Bannah More, and the Rev. d.. Newman
sails Gene TO Jtsus"
Leigh Richmo nd's famous tract wa.
written after the death Ct Elizabeth Wall
bridge on the Isle CT Wight in 1901. Sh,
was young woman who as a girl had BE-, I
fond of dress and fnery and teoan,
ashamed Of her passion for dress when she
heard sermon in which the preacheI
described the garment Of salvation with
which a Christian is clothed"
In her last illness she was, TO quote IN,
suthor's words. made rich by faith" Tn,
Rev. Leigh Richmond drew his lesson from
the conversations he had with the younf
woman,
The tombstone OF Elizabeth vi llbridg e'.
grave still stands, bearing the motto, Ssh,
being dead, yet speaketh." The chair IL
which she sat while she talked to Legl
Richmond was preserved and Is now in ID,