A Striking Letter

I received this letter a week or two ago: ― “Dear Sir, ―Only two weeks ago a gentleman of culture and good social standing, told me that he had had a talk with a certain Professor of Divinity lately (and with whom he agreed), who said that our young men just now were offering a sacrifice as great, if not greater, than Christ’s! Oh! I was speechless, but I feebly tried to say something, but it was so unexpected and sudden that I could only cry, ‘God help me,’ and ‘God help him.’ This man’s only son has lately gone to Mesopotamia, and he is in despair. When your leaflet came into my hand (‘The Sin against the Soldier and the Saviour’), sent me by a dear friend, I thanked God and took courage, and sent your leaflet to my friend saying, ‘The enclosed expresses my views better than I can say them,’ and begged him to read it. Pray that God may use it to set him right…”