The Graves Are Speaking

We cannot pray for the dead, they are gone beyond our prayers, but those silent mounds of earth, with their simple crosses, are speaking to us today. Oh! friends, let the mute appeal of the dead stir your hearts to help the living.
What do they seem to say to us from their lonely graves? Listen!
Pray at home for those who have taken our place in the ranks of war.
Send the Word of God to those whose living eyes can read it, and whose beating hearts can rejoice in it.
Give them the little khaki Testament that has fallen from our dead hands; they need it now as we needed it before we died.
God will call us to account, some of us who are Christians, for the selfish ease that has possessed us when the need of souls was so great. We are resting quietly at home while thousands die for us each day abroad. What are we doing for their immortal souls? Are we helping to give them the Bibles, and Gospels, and Testaments that shall be like finger posts pointing them to Christ?
A Christian writes to me: ―
“I hope you will be able to send more Testaments and Gospels soon. I was delighted to see two parcels from you a few days ago. I gave them away the same day, and in forty-eight hours no doubt they were in the trenches... God reward you for giving our dear men His Word when going to face death.”
Another writes saying: — “Thank you very much for parcel sent, for which I am truly grateful. I enclose a post card I received from a lad in the firing line. I wonder if you can manage to send him something. May God abundantly bless and preserve you.” The lad has his parcel.
Yes, they are calling to us from the battlefields. Pray for us at home! Think of us at home! Send the Word of God to us from home! Give us the little Testament that we can carry with us to the trenches.
Dear friends, the living and the dead are calling to you. Will you help? You cannot save their bodies, are you trying to save their souls? We are told by workers at the Front that it is appalling the number of men who go on their last journey from the base to the trenches without Testaments. And it is heartrending to know that often the last sermon they hear before their death tells them they can be sure of heaven by their own self-sacrifice, and have no need of Christ. Poor, brave fellows, Gad help you and teach you to rely only upon His written Word! This will make you wise unto salvation.
Read this letter I received from one who has left England for the battlefront, and is conscious of his need of Christ’s presence with him: —