17, Raleigh Road, Exeter.
Dear Sir,
It is now three weeks since I returned from France, and I feel I must thank you for parcels of literature and Testaments sent to me for distribution while there. I am sure you would feel amply repaid for the labor and sacrifice that your work must have entailed, could you have seen the eagerness with which the tracts and Testaments were always accepted. When first I went to France I spent some time at a place where there was a continual flow of men always passing through on their way to join their battalions in the line, and I am reminded especially of one great batch of men who were awaiting medical inspection. As I passed them I took from my pockets a few tracts and Testaments, and so great was the appeal on all hands that I returned to my sleeping quarters and turned out all that I had. When Testaments and tracts were exhausted, I distributed all the post cards you had kindly furnished me with, and I can assure you many of those men realized, as thousands have done during the War, that the one thing that really mattered was the solution of the great question: What must I do to be saved? and they were evidently aware that in those little Testaments lay the secret which is so important to every thinking man when he has to face almost certain death.
I was continually moving after leaving that place, but whenever opportunity was afforded me, I had only to send you a line, and by the quickest time it was possible to come, I had a supply of Testaments and printed messages. Again, I must thank you, and assure you that the work of sending clear and distinct messages of God’s plan of salvation must return a rich harvest, and that over and over again it has been clear to me that the work has been owned and blessed by God to very many precious souls. — Believe me, yours faithfully, Charlie Amery.