Dr. Heyman Wreford, — I am writing to you to ask you if you could send me one of your beautiful Testaments. I have been reading your book, “A Message from God,” dated December, 1916, which I had given to me to-night by a chum, Lee.-Corpl. J. S —, and it has just entered into my head how much I really need God. I have been out here thirteen months, and I have never really thought of God at all. I am also writing to you to ask you to help me to go to Christ, as I think you are the person who can lead me to His side, and help me to east aside the evil temptations of Satan. I have not mentioned anything to Lee.-Corpl. S — about what I am doing, as I have led such-a bad past life. I hardly seem to be, able to mix myself with a man who I know has been following the Lord Jesus Christ. It is rather difficult writing to strangers, so you must excuse me if this letter is badly put together. I am alone in this world, my parents having died when I was two years of age, and as to other relations, I do not know anything about them. But I shall be happier now, as I know I have found a true friend at last in you. Well, I must close now with the glad thought in my mind that it is through you that I shall strive to take Jesus Christ as my Friend and Master. — J.D.
And now, dear reader, let you and I sit beside one another in thought, and read two verses from the Word of God together. We shall find them in the First Epistle of John, third chapter 17th and 18th verses. They speak to me and to you, and they shall not speak in vain “But whoso hath this world’s goods, and seeth his brother have need, and shueth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”