An Army Scripture Reader writes: — “Many thanks for two parcels received, one yesterday and the other today. Also for all the kind interest you are taking in God’s work here. I assure you it helps me very much to speak to men of Christ when I am able to put His own Book into their hands. It is most encouraging the way the men ask for Testaments. Hundreds of men are really seeking after God, but are in need of someone to point them to the Lamb of God. This is not always possible, but when they have His own Word and read it, the Holy Spirit will lead them to Christ. Pray that this may be so, also for me that I may just have the right word. So often time is short, and off goes the train with its load of souls, and oh! how many will never return. I sometimes wonder if the Christian people in England realize that these men are, many of them, going to their death. It is so difficult to grasp it as one looks on the moving thousands of men at the station entraining, so full of life and spirits, that probably in forty-eight hours so many of them will be in the presence of God. May God enable us to lay hold on Him in prayer for these dear, fine-looking fellows, all the beloved of some sad heart in England. Just now one young man has decided for Christ in my tent. There are four or five thousand going up the line tonight.”
Dear Christian reader, do you feel the burden of these souls upon you? Do you want to help them to Christ and heaven? Help us to send them the Word of God and books that speak of salvation. I want at once: —
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10,000
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Gospels or Testaments, or both
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10,000
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“Message from God” each month
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10,000
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“How Can I Be Saved?”
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and books and tracts and magazines as many as you can send. If you will send me the means I can get them all, and I have willing helpers who will gladly send 500 parcels each month. May God incline your hearts to give. Bibles, not too much worn, are welcome also—they are useful for the Hospital and for workers at the Base, and for the sailors on the men-of-war. Writing pads and envelopes and pencils I am asked for constantly. Please send for this need. One Reader says: “The envelopes and paper was good; we gave one to each just before they left, and it was a blessing to many. ‘Ah! just a line to the wife,’ was often the cry. It is not easy to get writing material up country, and the men are very grateful for these small gifts.” French and Flemish Gospels and Testaments are much needed.