A doctor known to a friend of mine always took tracts with him wherever he went. For years he
was a sower, and didn’t know that even one grain of his good seed had taken root and grown. The
sowing only, and not the reaping, seemed to be for him. He became discouraged, and was tempted
to give up his apparently useless work. But still he felt that he must not until he got his discharge
from his Lord. He would just pray specially for some sign of approval, in the spirit of the
psalmist:"Show me a token for good." (Psalm 86:17). If the distributing of tracts was God’s work
for him, his desire was:"Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants." (Psalm 90:16).

Not long after this, a woman spoke to him one day.

"You don’t know me, Doctor?"

"No, I certainly don’t."

"But I know you. Some time ago you gave me a tract. I was an alcoholic then, and my house was
a mess, but I’d like you to come with me and see it now."

He agreed, and went with her to her home, and found it clean and neat. He learned that she had
taken the Lord as her Saviour and was now a Christian. She had passed on to her husband the
gospel tract that he had given her, and together they had gone to hear the gospel of eternal life
through believing in Jesus Christ, and both were now earnest happy believers.

The doctor felt this to be such an answer to prayer, and was so encouraged that he has never given
up tract distributing.

So don’t be discouraged. You may not see, nor know of any results, but you can believe. The
principle of John 13:7 may very well apply, "Jesus answered and said unto him, *What I do thou
knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter’."