Another Voice from the Front
This letter reaches me from France: — “How very pleased I was to receive a further supply of Testaments, etc., from you. Thank you very much for prayer for my work, that God will soundly convert these precious souls. Some are very hard cases, but the Word knows no defeat! it has not changed; it is still the power of God unto salvation. Oh! thank God for souls brought out of nature’s darkness into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. There are many here rejoicing in the risen, ascended Lord, who is so soon coming again. Hallelujah! Only this morning a company left here for the Front, and many with shining faces shook me by the hand and said, ‘Good-bye, God bless you.’ I replied, ‘Well, should we never meet again on earth we will meet in heaven.’ They have passed and gone up, and many, I feel sure, will be present when the ‘roll is called up yonder.’ I asked them, ‘How many of you are coming back?’ They said, ‘That is a hard question.’ So I just pleaded with them all to get right with God. The curtain drops then; prayer follows them. So very much is being done socially for the men, but the real, deeper need is sadly neglected. Thanking you for this second parcel, and for the next when convenient. God bless you, and still make you a greater blessing.”
When the dear brother, who for the Lord’s sake packs all the parcels for me in his spare time, often working till ten and eleven at night at it, heard these letters, he said, “Doctor, send 200 parcels a month, and I will pack them all.” We will send with your help.
A Chaplain writes: — “Thank you very much for the Testaments and St. John’s Gospels. They have been distributed, and my men very much appreciated them. We have been having strenuous times lately, and I have been in the trenches with my Brigade. It is wonderful what opportunities one has of real work, and I had a splendid talk with one of my Tommies just at the back of the trenches, only about two hundred yards from the Germans. He was not actually on duty, but standing in reserve, our front line being only some twenty-five yards from the enemy in places. It was rather wonderful to be talking of spiritual things with the bullets just flying over one’s head and the great guns sending their huge shells over us; but we are up against realities out here, and men are wonderfully responsive. Pray on for us all, and will you specially pray for me, for guidance in finding the right message and for power in its deliverance?” Pray for him!
A worker writes: — “Many thanks for the parcel of books. I am very grateful for them. I should be very glad of another parcel.”
Another says: ― It is with great gratitude that I now take the opportunity of penning these few lines of thanks in answer to the splendid parcel received safely from you. It is a parcel that would always be welcomed by me because it is the right stuff.... The magazine, ‘A Message from God,’ is splendid, and so is the booklet, ‘How Can I Be Saved?’ I have had the pleasure of giving all the copies away to the men, and of seeing them reading them most eagerly. The other day a man desired a copy of ‘How Can I Be Saved?’ but I had not a single copy left. I am having very glorious times among the men, and it is grand to see the eager faces before me as they listen intently to the gospel of the grace of God.”