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Edited by Heyman Wreford
I DO not know who “B.H.P.” is, but as I turned over my Calendar for May these words,
“HE is counting ON YOU,”
caught my eye and struck my soul. It made me wish to serve Him more fully and with greater zeal than heretofore. Reader, will you ask yourself this question, “Is HE counting on ME” Your answer is “Yes.” Then what are you going to do NOW, today, for truly Our Lord is counting on us to help our soldiers and sailors at this awful time today? For hundreds of them, time is short, and they need to hear of the loving Saviour before they are shot and killed. Many times lately have I received letters from the Front, or from the North Sea, thanking God for having put it into Dr. Wreford’s heart to send such wonderful parcels of Testaments, Gospels, and “Message from God.” I will quote part of a letter which will stir your hearts when you read what this earnest, loving Chaplain is doing for his Lord over and beyond his work, “Thank you so much for ‘holding me up’ in prayer. It is wonderful how much you can help at home in this way.” (Reader, remember “HE is counting ON YOU” to pray.) In his next letter he tells me he is going into the firing line, and therefore not able to carry a parcel of Testaments, but happily our parcels were sent off before his letter came; and then this delightful appreciation came: —
“Dear Miss Leakey, — As it happened I was just able to use a friendly Staff Officer’s motor-car when the parcels of Testaments came, and so put the parcels into it, and yesterday, Sunday, gave away two hundred of them to my men, who were delighted. Several of the officers themselves came forward on the parade and asked for them also. I have a tremendously busy time these days, as finding there was no Chaplain for the Divisional Troops, I have managed, with riding many miles and tiring out two horses, to arrange for them to join up with the regiments of my own Brigade at more or less convenient centers. But for the use of a motor ambulance on Sundays I could not cover the ground, as each service is miles away from the other, the distance in some cases being as much as nine miles and more. All these services are in the open air. Pray for next Sunday. I want a message and the power to deliver it.
“P. S. — We had a most blessed day yesterday.”
After reading this, what are you going to do? All these Testaments and Gospels cannot go without money, and the need month by month is getting stronger, so help whilst you can.
Here is the little verse that touched me so: —
“He is counting on you!
On a love that will share in His burden of prayer
For the souls He has bought with His life’s blood,
And sought, through His sorrow and pain,
To win home yet again —
He is counting on you.
If you fail Him — what then?
Pray ye therefore.”
and give whilst it is called today. EMILY P. LEAKEY