The Last Entry in a Soldier’s Diary
The following is a part of a letter from the parents of a soldier killed in action recently: ― “Willie’s things came home a fortnight ago. It was a very hard trial to us; it seemed so little for one we held so dear. Well, his diary came with them, so I must tell you the last entry: ― ‘Dear mother and father, I am going into this fight with Jesus in my heart. Have no fear if anything should happen to me; I am safe in His keeping; He will watch over me.’”
And now, my reader and I must say “Goodbye” for another month. The time is short; if work is to be done, it must be done now. A correspondent says: ―
“I understand that for the sum of 5/- you will send a parcel containing Gospels, Testaments, and an assortment of magazines, etc., to the Front. Will you kindly send two parcels for me? I enclose 10/- in payment.”
We are also sending a Testament to every soldier or sailor who asks for one. We had about one hundred and fifty applications last week. Please study the invitation to every soldier and sailor on the last page of cover.
The Diary of a Soul
By the Editor
FIVE hundred years before Christ—that is, close on two thousand five hundred years ago—the voice of a prophet of God was heard in a godless land, and as he cried his message was: “Your priests have violated God’s law, and you have profaned God’s holy things―you have put no difference between the holy and the profane, between the clean and the unclean” (Ezek. 22). If this man of God were living today, and moved about among us, his voice would proclaim a like message, for in this land of ours the same sins are committed that he denounced so long ago, and worse ones also.
The holy things of God. What are they?
1.|The divinity of the Lord Jesus.|
2.|The inspiration of the Scriptures.|
3.|The immortality of the soul.|
4.|The personality of the Holy Ghost.|
5.|The fall of man and salvation through Christ alone.|
6.|Justification by faith.|
7.|The future punishment of the wicked.|
All these “holy things” of God have been “profaned” by men. Many deny these great truths today. And there can be no salvation, according to God’s holy Word, unless these truths are accepted and held.