Just in Time

Mr. Johnson says: ― “One young soldier came to me at the retirement from Mons and said, ‘Will you give me one of the New Testaments?’ As we had not any time for eating or resting, I said to him, ‘Well, my lad, if you will come to me at the next stopping-place I will give you a New Testament.’ He did so, and I gave him one gladly. After the battle of Landrecies, when I was in the hospital waiting for the men from the firing line not many yards distant, one was brought out so much battered and wounded that I scarcely recognized him until he said, ‘Mr. Johnson, was it not a good thing you gave me that New Testament? ‘I found that he had read it on the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and that he had made such good use of it since I had spoken to him of Christ that he had sought and found Him as his Saviour! I did not see that lad again. One of the saddest times I have experienced was at Soupir on the Aisne. All my stock of Bibles and Testaments had been distributed. Some soldiers asked me, ‘Have you a Bible, have you a Testament?’ and I had to say ‘No.’ Then they said, ‘Have you not even a Gospel?’ I said, ‘I am sorry I have not.’ It was sad to see those poor fellows going away disappointed.”