Requests for Prayer for Absent Friends

They have left us from ten thousand homes — loved ones whom we miss every moment. We know not where they are, the veil of the censor hangs between us and them. We know that somewhere where the shot and shell are flying they are facing death for us. Now and again a letter comes like a ray of light flashing across dark skies, and then a silence falls of days or weeks. And what can we do in the silence? We can pray. Thank God, we can pray. And our prayers may bring the angels of God to the battlefields to shield the ones we love. “Are they not ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation?” They are there, doing their blessed work for us and ours. Unseen by mortal eyes, they bring the light and peace of heaven in their ministries of love. In my “Incidents of the War” I shall tell you some remarkable instances of God’s preserving care. I am printing the following requests for prayer, but as I am obliged to go early to press, army will be sent to me this month doubtless that will come too late to be inserted, but I will put them in (D.V.) next month.