Saved ‘Mid the Shot and Shell

A Christian soldier writes from the Front: ―
“What opportunities we have for serving God, if we are only vessels meet for the Master’s use. How glad I am to know that God is working in men’s souls, through this war. The men are quite eager to receive the Testaments, etc., but what is that even to the desire of the One Who waits to receive them? We have been having a very sharp time. When we were attacking M― our Company was in the front line, and I lost my officer, who was killed there. We advanced a few yards at a time by short, sharp rushes. The enemy were only a few hundred yards away. We took cover in a bit of a ditch, and while waiting the order to charge a soldier crawled next to me. Be seemed quite frightened, as it was the first time he had been under fire. The bullets were whistling over our heads. I asked him if he was ready if the worst did happen. ‘No,’ he replied. ‘Whose fault is it?’ I said; ‘Christ has died for you, and God is satisfied with what lie has done.’ I asked him to pray with me. He did so, just a short, simple prayer seeking God’s forgiveness; and God answered with peace and assurance in the dear lad’s heart. I asked him if he was ready now. He answered ‘Yes.’ I asked him how. He clasped my hand and said, ‘Through trusting in Christ.’ (Praise God!) He said, ‘I am not afraid now, whatever happens.’ I never saw him again alive, but I know with certainty his soul is with the One he trusted that awful afternoon It will comfort the hearts of his parents if I write and tell them about their son, and it may be the means of eternal blessing to them.”― LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.

A soldier in the Royal Fusiliers sends me a pound to send four boxes to the Front. One box of French New Testaments. One box of Russian New Testaments. One box of Serbian New Testaments. One box of Belgian New Testaments. I can send the French and Belgian, but I have not the Russian or the Serbian. Perhaps some friend can send me some. Our dear friend adds in his letter: “If you haven’t these in print use the money for the Lord’s work in any way you like. I am sending it as a thank offering to my Lord Jesus Christ. John 3:16. God bless you in your work of faith and labor of love.”

Another writes: ― “Please find enclosed, the tenth part of my yearly salary, as a New Year’s offering to the Lord, for the blessed though arduous work you are engaged in for Him and His glory.”
“My sins deserve eternal death,
But Jesus died for ME.”