ONE remarkable feature of the work here is the wonderful readiness on the part of the men to listen to the message of the Gospel. One evening a number of Scotch soldiers gathered around as I was showing a Testament to a man. One of the company began to argue against it, and I became conscious that he was a man who in the past had heard the Gospel plainly told out. I asked if such was not the case, He confessed it was so, and said his father had been converted under the preaching of D. L. Moody when that evangelist came to Glasgow. This gave an opening again to bring before all the Cross. Upon each present there came such a sense of the wonder of it all. I had never before been so conscious of the power of the Spirit. One man broke the silence by saying, “Aye, man, but ye dinna feel like arguing the noo.” “No,” I said, “and no man here wants to. It is ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to the testimony you have heard. What is your answer to-night?” One man, as the tears coursed down his cheeks, said, “My answer is ‘Yes.’” Through the gracious power of the Holy Spirit a number of men of that group yielded fully to the Lord Jesus.
Grasping the hand of one of the men, I asked what his answer was to be. “Aye, man, but I canna say Yes tonight. I maun count the cost.” He promised that he would face the great question, and so we parted. The next evening he came again, bringing three more with him. Very touching was his testimony... “Well, we faced it out in the hut last night, and, man, there is only one answer to be given; it is Yes.’”
In a letter from the Front, where these men went soon after, he tells of his continued joy in the Lord. W. GAYTON.