A Sapper’s Need

“Just a line to let you know I found one of your little booklets in the trenches entitled, ‘The Sin against the Living God and Sentimental Blasphemy.’ Would you kindly send me a khaki Testament for my pocket? I saw on the back page you would send a Testament to any soldier who wrote. I have been out in France eighteen months, and never had one, only an old one I found in the trenches, which I have yet. ― Sapper R. D—.”

A PRIVATE WRITES: ― “We had a small book of yours thrown from the train by someone, so I am just writing to ask you if you would be so kind as to send me a khaki Testament that would fit my pocket. One that I can pull out and read in my spare moments. ― G.W.M.”