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Edited By Heymen Wreford
EVERY real Christian now is striving, in all possible ways, to help our soldiers and sailors, and specially as regards their precious, never-dying souls. It is delightful to give them any little help and comfort we can for their bodies, which is easy enough, but to get at them about their souls is a much more difficult matter. Thank God I have been able to offer them hundreds of tracts, and not one has been refused. “Thanks awfully” is the boyish and grateful answer when I have said, “Would you most kindly put this in your pocket and read it at your leisure?”
But my dear friend, H. “R.V.,” did get a refusal the other day, when she, with sweet politeness, offered a Gospel of St. John to a soldier in regimentals. “No, madame, I do not think I will accept it,” he replied to her astonishment; but then, looking at her with kindly eyes, he said, putting his hand on his khaki, “I have inside here my little pocket Bible, which I make a point of reading morning and evening.” Then they had a sympathetic talk about the Lord and His work. “I am,” said he, “a member of the Soldiers’ Christian Association, and if you will permit me, I will now gladly accept the Gospel of St. John that you offered me, for I will give it to one of my companions who has no Bible.”