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Edited by Heyman Wreford
HOW true it is that “There’s life in a Took at the crucified One.” Oh! how eagerly we who know and love the Lord, who was crucified for us, but is now at the right hand of God interceding for us, how eagerly we long for news that our dear soldiers and sailors should take that look and be saved!
Prebendary Webb Peplos has told of a lovely instance of this truth that happened just lately in the trenches. Colonel Savile tells it to me, and I gladly tell it to all readers of the “Message”: ―
A soldier lay dying in the trench, anxious to be saved, to have his soul safe, and begged his comrades to tell him how he could get to heaven. Another soldier higher up the trench heard his cry. He passed his Testament, and said, “Read him John 3.” When his comrade came to the sixteenth verse, “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” The poor, anxious soldier, with his dying breath, said, “Thank God, that’s done it!”
Emily P. Leakey