Indeed, a most remarkable answer―I felt sure it was, and so I determined to find out. Although a perfect stranger to me, I wrote to his mother living in the north of England sending her a card with the sweet words, “He (Jews) healeth the broken-hearted” and saying “will you tell me, did you pray that you might hear of him after his death?” Her answer was the following: “Yes, Miss Leakey, I did pray, earnestly, that in some way, or other I should hear something more of my dear son, and then I got that letter from that kind soldier that was a direct answer to my prayer. I believe in prayer and am always praying for my boys―this is the second son gone―and it is a relief to get any news concerning them.” So now dear friends let me say a word about prayer. Mothers go on praying for your sons in the war―at the Front or in the Navy, or wherever they are, cease not to pray―and sons or daughters go on praying. Prayer is the power of God, given to His children to use for His glory. Now to tell you the remarkable answer to this dear mother’s prayer. A friend of mine visiting the wounded soldiers in one of our Hospitals was asked by Bombardier M―if she would write to this mother and send her a letter he had found in the pocket of a dead soldier. This was how it happened: Lately in the trenches somewhere in France, he with his corps were waiting, when a bomb came and crashed through the ground throwing up a number of corpses―18 were found―and evidently God put it into the heart of this Bombardier to see if he could find any word of new or comfort that he could send to any relative, The bodies had been buried last October; searching the dead bodies he found in one man’s pocket a letter with his mother’s address (either to her or from her), so now the mother’s prayer is answered and this kind soldier told her he had buried her son and placed a wooden cross over his grave. I think this soldier’s action one of the most beautiful I have ever heard, and the answer to the mother’s prayer the most remarkable. Fancy a bomb tossing up these dead bodies and so being the means of answering prayer.
Emily P. Leakey.