Cheer for our Helpers

An earnest worker at the Front, who has had many of our parcels, writes: ―
“As one looks back over these last ten months only, and thinks of the thousands of men who would have gone into the fighting line without God’s Word in their pocket but for your kind sympathy in sending the Testaments to me, and so giving me the real joy of passing them on, who can say how many were able to rest on some of God’s glorious promises through reading the Testaments? The Holy Spirit has been given to reveal Jesus through the Word. I took a service for the Chaplain last week, and invited any who wished to decide for Christ to come to my tent, and five came: four seemed to trust for salvation, the other did not seem so clear. The four came again next day for prayer and reading the Word. The day after they left for the Front.... I am afraid the War is too far off for the people in England to realize what this War is meaning for our dear men. As I write I can hear the booming of the guns. I try to imagine what the thoughts of our men, especially the married men, are just before they go over the trenches―not after, but before―when the order is given to be ready, and they have to wait. Oh! pray that just then God will reveal Himself to them in such a way that they will trust Him. He can do it. Then if they come back they will live for Him, if not they will go to be with Him. God bless you and all the kind friends who have helped.”