Excerpt from Tracts of the American Tract Society, Vol. 11: General Series It is too late to ask, in this age of Christian activity, what object we have in making such visits. It is to em ploy our Opportunity of exciting attention from the mere fact of our being strangers and to make it a means of im pressing their minds with the truths necessary to their sal vation. Our blessed Master remarked how much more he was noticed and listened to in strange places than at home. We can present Tracts to them we can comfort their sick we can unite with them in prayer we can tell them of the progress of religion where we came from, and in all parts of the earth; in fine, we can give them more matter to think about, and profitably too, in an hour's conversation, than they would perhaps collect in a month with their scanty opportunities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.