Only two in ten Have a Testament

Read carefully this letter which has just come to me by post from the Front. The writer is an eager worker for the Lord Jesus Christ. He says: “Many thanks for all your kind sympathy and prayers. Also for the many packets of post cards and four parcels.
I have also received four from Colonel S―... It is most encouraging how the men continue to be so eager to get any portion of God’s Word. I don’t find more than two in ten who have a Testament… Ah! if friends could only be here for one day and see, as I do, the men going off daily, and know what awaits so many of them, and also knew that their only hope must be in God through His Word. A man writing from the fighting line a few days ago says: ‘It seemed a small affair, but we lost nearly all our officers, and it was a very small battalion when we marched back after the attack, but we did our job―but at what a price!’ I am afraid people in England are getting used to the War. But these men’s places must be taken by others, hence the continual stream going up. You know how many Testaments there are in one of your parcels. I could have used one hundred and fifty of your parcels yesterday, and many would have gone without then. That is from here alone. Christians at home don’t realize the stream of men that are passing into God’s presence daily. Pray that these dear men may be ready. They are all some mother’s dear boys―or some woman’s husband. Pray, pray. I was among them from 1 p.m. till 12 midnight yesterday.”
Can you read this without tears? And can you wonder at my constant appeals to you for the Word of God? This is only one letter. I get scores telling the same story: men going to death without the Word of God in their pockets. I am sure God will make you send me the 100,000 Testaments I am wanting.