The Name Above Every Name

A very remarkable story was told by Rev. E. Aldom French, of the Tooting Mission. One of the finest members they had at Tooting was a lad who had been born in a horrible Lambeth slum and converted in the Lower Tooting Mission. Soon after the outbreak of War he joined the Army and spent some time at the Front in France. A while since he was home on leave, and went to class and told something of what Jesus had come to mean to him, concluding his testimony with ―
“Happy if with my latest breath,
I may but gasp His name,
Preach Him to all and cry in death,
‘Behold, behold the Lamb.’”
He went back to the Front, and one day was telling the men around him what a wonderful Saviour Jesus was, and pleaded, “Oh, men, give yourselves to Jesus Christ.” Lost in his message, he exposed himself for a moment, and even as he spoke he was shot dead by a sniper.
“Happy if with my latest breath,
I may but gasp His name.”