The General and the Evangelist

From: The Gospel Messenger: Volume 32 (1917)

Narrator: Chris Genthree

• 1 min. read • grade level: 7

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 hg 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. 9:22²²And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. (Hebrews 9:22)). “The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:7⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)).

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