Issue 2010 #1
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Tract Reviews:
Can You Get the Wildness Out?
A little tract has been slipped into our lists and racks this past year with hardly a ripple of notice. It is called, Can You Get the Wildness Out?
It tells of a couple with a great heart for animals. While making a movie about caribou in Alaska they came upon a pair of cute wolf cubs. These cubs seemed deserted, so they took them home and adopted them.
The couple were convinced they had tamed and got the wildness out of the wolves, but had a rude surprise when the wolf cubs reached maturity.
The tract answers whether we can get rid of our tendency to sin. Can education, refinement and culture train us not to sin? No, it is part of our human nature. There is only one way to be rid of sin, and this little tract shows what that one sure way is. This tract might speak to those who think they can "manage" their sin.
No Thanks
An older little tract about Thanksgiving got a face lift just before that holiday. It now has a full-colour graphic of a wheelbarrow full of signs of an abundant harvest.
The text, if you have not read it, refers to the various days different countries have set aside as a Thanksgiving holiday. It then observes that many people just think of it as another long weekend and use it to meet their own whims rather than attend a worship service to thank God. It is as if they are saying, "No, Thanks," to God.
Normally, we would never be so rude to anyone else. Why not recognize the gifts offered by God? This may be a gentle rebuke to those who have let slip the things that are truly most important. We can pray that they would return to full appreciation for our blessed hope and daily gifts from above.
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