This is a drawing of a French artist, M. Paul Thiriat, and be brings before us a picture of the wounded on the battle-held only a few hundred yards off.
“These Red Cross posts,” a writer says, “were established in any Flemish cottage or farm that seemed most suitable for the purpose. The Geneva flag is hoisted above them conspicuously in the hope that the enemy will refrain from firing in that direction. In the main they were intended as extemporized posts for slight wounds only, but Red Cross motor cars are kept handy either to carry off the more serious cases to the base, or to shift ail the patients if the post becomes untenable.”
What a blessing these shelters were to the wounded — shelter and care for them from ready, loving hands. This awful War on the one hand has brought out all that was devilish in the heart of man, as shown by the methods of warfare; on the other hand it has brought out all that was most human and loving in the care of the wounded and the dying. Thank God, too, for the millions of copies of His Word that have been distributed, for the daily prayers that have ascended to heaven on behalf of the heroes of the battlefields. This work is needed still, the world is filled with thousands of maimed men whose hearts are ready to receive, salvation now. They have looked death in the face, these men, and they want a hope beyond the grave.