The Soldier’s Duty To Christ

Christian soldier! your duty to Christ is plain and positive: “Take up your cross and follow Me.” You are as bound to work for Christ where you are as you were in the Sunday School or the Bible Class at home. Do nothing where you are that will make you ashamed to look your mother in the face when you come back.
God bless you.

The Diary of a Soul
By the Editor
I READ a paper called “The Multitudes,” and I was so much struck with it that I make an extract from it for my Diary.
GOD CARES! DO WE?
There will come a day when we shall stand in His presence. What will it be to look in His face that was so moved with compassion for the heart-hungry multitude, to see that He indeed meant what He said, that His hands were really pierced; and that down there on earth we had some pieces of metal or of white paper that men call money, that we tossed it lightly away or held it fast; or worse still, spent it upon ourselves, until the one chance in all eternity for giving His gospel to a lost world was gone forever, and it was too late! That opportunity is still ours. God grant that we may ask Him now: “Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?”

Through midnight gloom from Macedon
The cry of myriads as of one,
The voiceful silence of despair,
Is eloquent in awful prayer,
The soul’s exceeding bitter cry,
“Come o’er and help us, or we die.”
Acts 16:9.|How mournfully it echoes on,
For half the earth is Macedon;
These brethren to their brethren call,
And by the Love which loved them all,
And by the whole world’s Life they cry,
“O ye that live, behold we die I”
S. J. STONE, M.A.

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This is the cry from every battlefield where dying men are, from the trenches, from the rest camps, from the hospitals. God cares! Do we?
A British officer thus described the most terrible part of the awful tragedy of the battlefield:— “It is not the shrieks of the wounded as they fall. It is not the sight of the dead as they lie there; but it is the cry of the wounded boys, crying for their mothers, and there is no one to do anything for them.” God cares! Do we?