“Without Fear” At the Front

An affecting story is told among the troops sent to France from Ontario. A certain young officer was wont, before going into battle, to read to his men the Twenty-third Psalm, and another Psalm that the narrator failed to identify. At one time, as he led into the field of battle, he turned and said to his men: “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.” These were the last words his troops heard him speak, for he fell that day, and was instantly killed. His was no carnal confidence. “The righteous is taken away from the evil to come.”