“Abiding Under the Shadow” (Psa. 91:1)
A card from the Editor of the “Message” when he was in Brittany said, “You must get me some striking incident. I wish Colonel Savile would send you another.” Strange to say, by the same post came a most striking Testament incident from Colonel Savile, which shows indeed how wonderfully God preserves those who abide under His shadow and trust under the covert of His wings. I simply copy his letter: ―
“I heard of another Testament story which will interest you I am sure. An officer was marching with a column when a piece of shell struck him and was turned off by a Testament which was in his pocket, which his father had given him. But now comes the wonderful part: the shell stopped at the page with the ninety-first Psalm on it, and the first verse of that very psalm his father had written at the beginning of the book. But the wonder — or I should say, the mercies — of God did not stop there. He lay where he fell, and had to be left alone, and after a while, during the night, an ambulance wagon, which had lost its way, passed by. He called out and asked if they could take him in. They said, ‘Yes, there is just one place left.’ When he arrived at the hospital or dressing station the doctor said: ‘It was fortunate for you the ambulance found you, or you would have been dead by the morning, or anyhow lost your leg, as gangrene has begun to set in.’ It was, however, taken in time, and he is now as well as ever.”
That is a case of “abiding under the shadow of the Almighty” is it not? How I thank the good Colonel for giving it to us.
Emily P. Leakey
And now I appeal again, as I have month after month, for the means to get and to send away—
10,000 Gospels and Testaments
10,000 “Message from God” each month
10,000 “How Can I Be Saved?”
For Tracts and Books and Magazines
For Bibles in French and English, not too old or worn
For Lavender Bags with Texts tor the Hospitals
Send at once. The need is now.
I want also small writing pads and envelopes and pencils. And do pray that we may be strengthened for this work which God has given us, and which He has richly deigned to bless.