In one of the military hospitals there lay a fine soldier who had been badly wounded on the battlefield the day before.
A minister of Christ said to him: “Sergeant, we are going to halt soon.”
“Halt so early in the day?”
“Yes, sergeant, the march is nearly over; the bugle call will soon sound the halt.”
He said, “Ah, do you mean that I am soon to die?” The minister bowed his head.
“Well, sir, I am ready to halt. It is all right. I long to be with Christ. He has made it all right for me up there; I want to be with my Saviour.”
Then the dying man said to two women standing by his bed, “Sister, aunt, don’t weep for me—take this ring to her whom I love and had hoped to marry, and tell her I am going to Christ, and we shall meet in His presence soon.”