Dear Friends

One has said, “Prayer goes up to heaven to fetch something down, and praise goes up to heaven and stays there.” My daily, hourly prayer is that I may be able to help to put a Testament in the pocket of every soldier so that he may be able to hear God speak to him at any moment. And God is answering prayer: the blessing comes down and the praise ascends.

The Diary of a Soul
By the Editor
WE are sending out the second 100,000 post-cards to the soldiers, and every week brings us more than 1,000 requests for Testaments from individual soldiers. When shall we realize the awful need? When shall we see the imploring hands held out to us from the battle-fronts, and hear the impassioned cry, “Give us the Word of God”?
A Christian sergeant writes: ― “Our battalion is well fed, well equipped, but is starving for God’s message, the distribution of which must give you unbounded pleasure. We have only been out here a few weeks... and the battalion’s strength is gradually going down, and the eternal welfare of many comrades is nil. Can they not participate in your blessed gifts? I may mention that I have great joy in reading a portion of Scripture every night (when convenient) to my ever ready and eager, listening comrades. ‘The alley man’ is bombarding us again, so I must say adieu! May the Lord’s richest blessing be yours! ―I am, yours in Christ’s keeping, H.H.”
And from a lance-corporal I get the following: ―
“The night before I went home on leave, I was in reserve trenches, and one of our platoon said he did not like the notice on the back of ‘A Message from God’ which says, ‘Dying for your country in battle will NOT save your soul; but looking unto the Lord Jesus Christ WILL save your soul.’ He thought that it was only right that God should give them a place in heaven if they died fighting for their country. I had the joy of passing on God’s Word to him. I left for England the following day, and when I came back again our regiment had been in one of the worst bombardments they have had, and he was amongst those who answered the ‘great roll call.’ I only saw his grave last week, but I trust the day will come when I shall meet him again, for I was told he accepted Jesus Christ the night before he died.”