“Within Five Minutes of Heaven”

The extract from the following letter will interest readers of this number of the “Message,” containing the true story, “Within Five Minutes of Heaven.” The writer says: ― “I heard an interesting story tonight about one of ‘Jimmy Wallace’s Tracts,’ as the men call them. A man got shot on Tuesday, and in his breast pocket was a tract entitled, ‘Within Five Minutes of Heaven.’ Little did I think when I gave it to him that it would cause such a lot of talk. It was covered all over with his life’s blood, and the Quartermaster said he would send it to his mother. I know that many of the tracts found on the bodies of the dead soldiers have been sent home with the men’s belongings, and there is no telling what blessing they will bring. Poor B ―, he was a nice lad, and was to have been married shortly. Well, whatever our circumstances, our tomorrow is in loving hands―the hands that uphold the universe.”
Our dear friend, Miss Leakey, has issued some thousands of leaflets with the following words upon them, so deeply does she feel the dishonor brought to Christ by the false teaching that a man’s self-sacrifice makes him sure of heaven: ―
DYING for your COUNTRY in BATTLE will NOT save your soul but LOOKING unto JESUS CHRIST WILL save your soul.
(Acts 4:12)