God uses them. He used a tract to save the great missionary Hudson Taylor.

C.H. Spurgeon "When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready...get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts."

George Whitefield read one called, “The Life of God in the Soul of a Man,” he said, “God showed me I must be born again or be damned.” He went on to pray, “Lord if I am not a Christian, or if I am not a real one, for Jesus Christ’s sake show me what Christianity is, that I may not be damned at last!” Then his journal tells us “…from that moment…did I know that I must become a new creature.” Whitefield, Journals, p 52

William Penn wrote a single religious tract that freed a total of 12,000 Quakers imprisoned for Christ's sake!

John Wesley organized 160 tract distributors in 1757 which literally reformed the Lord's day habits of the entire city of London!

Martin Luther wrote more than one tract, booklet or book for every working week of his entire life!

D. L. Moody began his very fruitful evangelistic ministry in Chicago by the simple act of distributing tracts to Great Lakes seaman!

Almost every foreign mission field was opened by missionaries who first used tracts to win the heathen to Christ

Every phase of the Protestant Reformation was preceded by immense tract effort that almost "turned the world upside down"

Precious cargo on the Mayflower included Pastor John Robinson's tracts.

The son of one of the chiefs of Burdwain, India, was converted by a single tract and that he was instrumental in the winning of 1,500 natives to Christ!

Someone once gave "The Inspiration of the Bible" to four infidels at different times. All four were saved and became preachers of the Gospel.

Years ago a lady gave a leaflet to two actors. One got saved, Dr. George Lorimer, and became pastor of Tremont Baptist Temple in Boston. Through his influence, Dr. Russell H. Conwell was led into the ministry.

A young Frenchman, wounded at the siege of Saint Quentin, was languishing on his hospital bed when a tract that lay on the table caught his eyes. He read it and was saved. A monument of that man, standing with a Bible in his hand, may be seen before the Church of the Consistory in Paris. He was Admiral Coligny, the leader of the Reformation in France. The tract was read by his nurse, who placed it in the hands of Lady Abbess and she was saved. Lady Abbess fled from France to the Palatinate where she met a young Hollander and became his wife. The influence which she had upon that man reacted upon the whole continent of Europe for he was William of Orange, who became the champion of liberty and of Protestantism in the Netherlands.

Dr. Oswald J. Smith said, “The only way to carry out the Great Commission will be by the means of the printed page.”