In the month of May, 1917, a doctor in Hampshire lent a lady patient C. H. Macintosh’s Notes on Exodus. A friend of hers—a clergyman—home from the Front on leave, called and found her reading the book. They read it ‘together, and he became convinced that he did not really know God at all. Seeing his great interest in it, the lady let him take the book away with him, and he read it all the way in the train when he left her.
Later, he wrote to his friend from hospital, saying he had just been told that he had only a few days to live, and hoped that she would be able to read what he was writing at intervals, and with great difficulty. He thanked God for leading him to call on her that afternoon. He had, through the book, been brought to the true knowledge of God, and of the Gospel, and he had been able to tell many of his men of the Saviour he had found.
While acting as a stretcher-bearer, his fellow bearer was shot, and he succeeded in dragging his patient, a lad of nineteen, to a secluded spot, where he lay beside him, flat on his face on the ground.
Presently the boy, who was mortally wounded, said: “Oh sir, I am going. Give me a kiss.” Raising his head, the clergyman bent over him, and while the boy put his arms round his neck, he whispered words of comfort into his, ear. The boy said: “God bless you—tell mother I’m safe in the arms of Jesus.”
At that moment, owing to his slightly raised position, a sniper saw and shot the clergyman in the back. Many hours, afterward he was found with the dead lad’s arms locked so tightly round his neck that it took a long time to separate them. He asked that after his death the book might be sent to his mother.
The clergyman’s only brother—a Colonel, who had been dismissed from the Life Guards through drink—wished to see the book that had made his brother so happy. To, him also God used it for blessing, and he was definitely converted. His fiancée—a titled lady—says she could not have believed such a change in a person to be possible—it is “a modern miracle.”
She was with him when he was wounded in the train that was bombed in Liverpool Street Station some weeks ago. He has since died.
(CONTRIBUTED.)