The Great Demand

Only last week I had applications for more than fifty parcels. This is beyond our ordinary list. I have sent to all. We have now about four hundred people to whom we have sent about two thousand parcels, and who are ready to take the Word of God from us and distribute it all over the world. We send to as many as we can every month — in fact one hundred parcels are needed every week. The dear brother who superintends the packing of the parcels has a band of earnest workers with him who are ready and willing for the Lord’s sake to pack and send all the parcels needed. This means that after their day’s work is done they come to work for God in this way. Do pray for them, dear friends, and thank God for them also.
Let me tell you a little more about our work, and I am sure you will be in fullest sympathy. Month by month this year the work has grown, and we have been able by the kindness of friends to meet the needs as they came before us. How God went with us, and before us, and opened doors of service for us is a sacred memory. It has all been very wonderful and very blessed, and all we can say is, “His holy Name be praised.”
We love the widows’ mites, and the blessing that always comes with them, and thank God some of our sweetest memories are linked up with the smallest gifts. But for those who wish the information I would say that for a gift of five shillings we can send one large parcel to the Front. The parcels weigh eleven pounds, and contain Gospels, Testaments, and an assortment of magazines and tracts and booklets. In many cases writing pads and envelopes and pencils as well. For a gift of ten shillings we can send two large parcels to the Front. For a gift of twenty shillings we can send four large parcels to the Front. For a gift of five pounds we can send twenty large parcels to the Front.
A Colonel writes to a friend saying, “Please thank Dr. Heyman Wreford for the splendid parcels he has sent; they are greatly appreciated.”
It is the Word of God we long most to send — the little khaki Testament that fits the soldier’s pocket. But on the last page of this number you will see our other wants.
I close my Diary this month with the following striking incident which has been told and re-told, but which will bear re-telling again. It is, from the report of the Scripture Gift Mission: —