A CHRISTIAN lady visited a soldier terribly wounded, lying in the ward of a large military hospital. A nurse, entering, said to him: “You have no need to worry over your sins; anyone who gives his life for his country, as you have, is all right.” The man smiled faintly, but he shook his head and said: “Ah, that is mistake! When I lay out there in the open, I knew I had done my bit. I hadn’t failed King and Country but that didn’t help me to face God. I wasn’t fit to die, and I knew it, and it has been an awful trouble to me every day ever since. But just now, as I heard that lady’s prayer, I saw that the Lord Jesus had been punished for all my sins, and I might go free, and such a peace has come into my heart. How WONDERFUL FOR HIM TO DIE FOR THE LIKES OF ME! I’ll not be afraid to die now, because He has forgiven me.”
The Dawn.