A friend writes to me: — “I am so glad you are exposing the awful error of heroic death wiping out sin. I have often thought I should like to tell, you a testimony given at the Prayer Meeting held in my room every Friday at 3 p.m., which God is blessing more and more. A dear brother in the Salvation Army told us the following: —
“‘Yesterday, as I was going along the road, a soldier stopped and asked me if I could tell him of a coffee tavern. He was just home from the trenches in France, and he wanted a breakfast, but above all, a clean up, as he was going to see his girl, who lived here. I said: “Oh, come along to my place, my wife will give you a good breakfast, and you can have a good clean up.” During the breakfast, he pulled a Bible out of his pocket, and said: You know, my mother gave me this, and I often have a look at it. I’m not going to say I read it, because I don’t, but even a look at the cover seems to do me good. The parson chaps at the Front are telling its fellows if we dii for our country we shall go straight to heaven. I feel I should like to get up and tell them they are liars. I know very well I’m not fit for heaven, with all my sins on me!”’
The writer continues “We prayed for this man—he was in a few days married, and then had to return to France. Now we believe they are both converted, and our prayer is that he may be used to lead others to the Saviour in France.”