O Saviour! what a price Thy love has given,
To bring e’en one lost sinner safe to heaven;
And what Thy joy, if e’en the battlefield
Fruit, of Thy triumph shall abundant yield.
C. G.
The General and the Evangelist
A young Christian soldier, who was dying in a hospital in France with enteric fever, wrote home:— “It is terrible to hear dying men being told that a crown of glory awaits them, because they are laying down their lives for their country. It makes my blood boil to hear dying men so deceived. Why don’t they send out men who can tell them how they can be saved?”
A General told an evangelist that he must preach this to the men. “I take my orders from the King of kings,” replied the evangelist, “and He bids me preach salvation for the lost through the atoning death and blood-shedding of Christ alone, and that there is salvation in nothing else!”
“Without shedding of blood is no remission” (Heb. 9:22). “The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). ―F. A.