Four V.C.’S

Some of you have read of the heroism of four V.C. men: Ritchie, the drummer who, sitting on the enemy’s parapet, ‘mid shot and shell, beat the charge and rallied the leaderless soldiers; Miller, who was sent on a dangerous mission, and, though wounded unto death, brought the message and dropped dead as he delivered it; Short, who, though urged to go to the rear when wounded, remained at his post that he might still be of some service; Jackson, who carried helpless comrades to the place of safety. We admire and honor these heroic men for their self-sacrifice: have we no gratitude and honor for Christ, who gave Himself, not to an honorable death, but a death of shame, that we might be saved?