We Must Have Testaments

Friends! I am besieged with requests for Testaments. I must have them, or refuse those who ask, and that I should grieve to do. A letter, this moment come, says: — “Many thanks for your parcel, which I received safely. Could you kindly give me some more of the following:—
200 khaki Testaments (small)
200 ‘How Can I Be Saved?’
Any number of ‘Message from God’.”
Another writes for 300 khaki Testaments. Day after day. I get many requests for parcels at home and abroad. Pray with me that the Lord’s stewards may open their hearts and respond to this urgent need. We plead for the souls of men—the never dying souls of dying men.
I look toward the trenches, and I see thousands of men there without the Word of God. I see their appealing hands cut-stretched, and I seem to hear them say, “We have the soul hunger, and the soul thirst. Oh, for the Bread of Life and the Water of Life! We want the Word of God.” My heart is sad, and my eyes fill with tears as I think of this terrible imminent need. My soul cries out to them, “I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls.” And then the solemn apostolic injunction and warning sounds in my ears, as I bow before God in prayer: “But whoso hath this world’s goods, and seeth his brother hath need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.”
Dear friends, I am sure of your help.