“Blighty”

Lance-Corporal Roberts writes: ― “We were holding the front line, expecting every moment to get the order, ‘Get dressed,’ ready for being relieved, and I was making a final visit to see all were ready. I stayed to speak a word to one of the sentries. He said, ‘Give us a match, Corporal,’ but as I said I had not one, he said, ‘Oh, I forgot, all you have here is tracts!’ ‘Yes,’ I replied, ‘and all you want is Jesus.’ ‘Oh, no,’ he said, all I want is Blighty.’ I passed on to the next sentry, when suddenly I heard the sound of a rifle and a cry, and on going back I found the sentry with a bullet in his head. Death, not Blighty, was his portion. Reader, he did not want Jesus; he only wanted the dear homeland; but in a moment he had passed into eternity. You also may not want Jesus; you only want pleasure, fun, life; plenty of time, you say, to think about Jesus when you are old. You may not be in the firing line watched by a deadly sniper, but death may be near you. Where are you going? To heaven or to hell? Are you living in sin? Then you need Jesus and His precious blood to cleanse you. God does not desire your eternal loss, but gave His Son to save you. Will you not seek Him now? You need Him to save you, to keep you from sinning; you need Him when the bullets are flying around you, and you will need Him in the hour of death. The one who trusts the Lord Jesus does not fear death, or the judgment after death. Comrades, you need Him. Why not turn to Him now and accept Him as your Saviour?”
A grand appeal this, from a soldier to soldiers. May God bless it to many. And when they long for the earthly “Blighty,” where their loved ones are, may they be ready for the heavenly home, and believe what the Saviour said, “In My Father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” This is the true home where every Christian soldier shall spend the years of eternity in the place prepared by Christ for him. Will you be there?