An English Boy

The following touching incident, related by Corporal Haglett, must appeal to all our hearts. Think of the thousands of homes where fathers and mothers are weeping over their dead. We should pray earnestly to God to comfort the stricken hearts that have been filled with sorrow during this awful war. The Corporal says: —
“The other day I stopped to assist a young lad of the West Dents who had been badly hit by a piece of shell. He hadn’t long to live, and he knew it, too, but he wasn’t at all put out about it. I asked him if there was any message I could take to any one at home, and the poor lad’s eyes filled with tears as he answered: I ran away from home and ‘listed a year ago. Mother and dad don’t know I’m here, but you tell them that I’m not sorry I did it.’ “When I told our boys afterward about that they cried like babies, but, mind you, that’s the spirit that’s going to pull England through this war, and there isn’t a man of us that doesn’t think of that poor boy and his example every time we go into fight. I got his name and the last address of his people from his regiment, and I am writing to tell his people that they have every reason to be proud of their lad. He may have run away from home, but he didn’t run away from the Germans, anyway.”
If only our hearts were as devoted to the Lord Jesus as this dear lad’s was to his country and his King!