For Absent Friends

We all have them, dear ones in the trenches, husbands, brothers, sons, fighting for us on those terrible battlefields. We must surround them with a defense of believing prayer. Day by day, and hour by hour, we must pray that the Angel of His Presence will stand by them and protect them. In many a lonely home the hymn-prayer will rise to heaven: —
“Holy Father! In Thy mercy
Hear our anxious prayer;
Keep our loved ones, now far absent,
‘Neath Thy care.”
to Editor of “Message from God,” The Firs, Denmark Road, Exeter.