II. You can make your influence felt in the Tract Society. The circulation of religious tracts has been abundantly owned and blessed of God’s spirit.  It seems to be almost the only means of reaching some particular classes of people, who never wait upon God in his house.  It is a cheap method of preaching the gospel both to the rich and the poor.  For a single cent, or even less, a sermon may be obtained, containing a portion of divine truth sufficient, with God’s blessing, to lead a soul to Christ.  Engage actively in the various forms of this department of benevolent labor.  The distribution of a tract to every family in a town, once a month, when properly conducted, may be the means of doing great good.  It furnishes an easy introduction into families where God is not acknowledged; and the matter contained in the tract will assist you to introduce religious conversation.  It will enable you to ascertain and relieve the wants of the poor, without seeming to be obtrusive.  It will soften your own heart, and excite your compassion, in view of the objects of distress with which you meet.  It also furnishes a convenient opportunity for collecting children into Sabbath-schools.  In distributing tracts, endeavor, as far as courtesy and propriety will admit, to engage those with whom you meet in direct personal conversation with regard to the concerns of their souls; and when you meet only with the female members of the family, and circumstances favor it, pray with them.  By so doing, you may be the instrument of saving many precious souls.  Your labor will also reflect back upon yourself, and warm your own heart.  You will get a deeper sense of the dreadful condition of perishing sinners; and this will be the means of exciting a spirit of prayer in their behalf.  Those engaged in this work should meet every month, after finishing the distribution, report all cases of interest, and spend a season in prayer for the divine blessing upon their labors.  I would advise you to begin your distribution early in the month, and always finish it before the middle; and be sure you make a written report to the superintendent, as soon as you have finished it.

III. You can make your influence felt in the missionary cause. This is a cause which must be near the heart of every Christian.  The spirit of missions is in unison with every feeling of the new-born soul.  It is the spirit of universal benevolence; the same spirit which brought our Lord from the realms of glory, to suffer and die for perishing sinners.  His last command to his disciples, before ascending up again into heaven, was, that they should follow his example, in the exercise of this spirit, until the whole world should be brought to a knowledge of his salvation.  But more than eighteen hundred years have passed away, and yet at least two thirds of the inhabitants of this fallen world have never heard the gospel; and probably not more than one seventieth part of them have really embraced it.  This is