WHAT is the motor filter lorry? Perhaps some of us may not know, so this incident here related will inform you. But for the War going on, we may never have known what a necessary and providential blessing these water lorries are.
I was talking to a lance-corporal in one of our hospitals yesterday, when I mentioned what one of my great-nephews was doing in France. In the beginning of the War he joined the R.A.M.C. in ambulance work; lately he has been chosen for the water company, and is billeted in a village, where, he says, they are most comfortable and kindly treated. His work is to carry pure Water to the soldiers in the trenches. “It is always ice now when we start in the cold early mornings.” “Ah!” said the corporal, “splendid work; they need water, good, pure water there. A boon to get it, instead of the liquid mud infected with all sorts of odours they have to use in the trenches.”
The pure filter lorry, the pure water, is a telling subject, and reminds us of the living water, the free water, that is given to everyone who asks (see Rev. 22:1717And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Revelation 22:17)): “Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” This “same soldier says, in a letter to his mother, what a blessing his Testament that she gave him has been to many a dying man in the ambulances, who were comforted by the words he read of the Living Water, the Lord Jesus, is to thirsty souls.
Dear reader, shall we not all try to help send Testaments to every soldier? A young lady wrote me today, saying, “It is glorious to think they are wanted and appreciated by the dear fighting men, so I enclose ten shillings to send a few more. Reader, will you?
EMILY P. LEAKEY.