THE battle raged, shot and shell were dropping into the British lines like rain from the clouds. A stray piece of shrapnel lodged itself in a soldier's cheek, seriously damaging one of his eyes. At the same instant as the shot struck him, he felt a touch upon his shoulder, and a voice whispered in his ear, "Won't you come to Christ now?”
He turned, but saw no one at the moment. It seemed a voice from heaven. Looking along the trench, he saw a young soldier running quickly. Listening, he heard the same question being repeated in the ear of every man whom the young soldier passed.
"Won't you come to Christ now?" The words went home to the soldier's heart. He considered, for a few seconds, as he lay wounded in the trench. The shell might have meant instant death, but he had been preserved.
The opportunity was seized, and there in the trench, lying badly wounded, he gave his decision: "Yes, I will come to Christ now." He came, and found those words spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ quite true—"Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:37.)
To-day he lives in Ireland, a bright testimony to the grace of God.
Reader, allow me to whisper that question in your ear, "Won't you come to Christ now You have heard the Gospel often, no doubt, and have had many opportunities of accepting Christ as your Savior, You may not be in such a perilous position as the soldier of whom you have read, but, be sure of this, death is busy to-day. Are you prepared? Oh! turn to the Savior. He is able and willing to save you. Able, because He has met every claim of God against you. He has borne in His own Person all the consequences of your sins. Willing, because He loves you, and desires to have your trust. Let your heart go out with the soldier's, and say, "Yes, I will come to Christ now." God grant it.
C. S. R.