Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 24, 1916

THE Bible is appreciated out in the trenches where men are face to face with death. A wounded man from the Dardanelles tells how, at Gallipoli, a comrade “used to take out his Testament in the trenches and read it to us night and morning. He wouldn’t miss a day. All in that part of the trench where he was, often a dozen men, would go and listen.”

ROUGH men in the ranks, strangers to prayer, repeat fervently simple prayers taught them by mothers when children. One young man received at the front a letter from his wife, saying, “Be sure and say your prayers,” and from that time he prayed every night, “Now I lay me down to sleep,” etc. In the hospital he said, “My mother taught it me,” and in the trenches these words of his childish prayer came back to him, and through them his mind again turned to God.

STILL illustrating what a comfort the Bible is to soldiers, an experience at Flanders is related: “A corporal and a comrade fell wounded, remaining still under fire. The corporal applied his first-aid dressing both to his comrade and himself, and then took out his Testament and began to read. The two men lay side by side for hours, until a shell killed them both. They were found with the Testament still open between them.” Some one gave that the Testament might be given. Little does he know how much good was accomplished by his gift.