A BIBLE ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
A VETERAN of the Civil War writes to the Bible Society: "Your appeal of March 8th for funds for the distribution of Testaments and Gospels to the wounded Japanese soldiers touches a tender place in my heart. Forty-two years ago I was a wounded soldier on the banks of the Mississippi near Vicksburg, in a damp and lonely tent all summer, a large part of the time delirious with gangrene. My only companion was the little Testament the Branch Bible Society at Quincy, Iowa, gave me, among the rest, as we marched away to war. How well I remember that little Testament! When my temples were throbbing with fever, and my wound was excruciatingly sore, I could then turn to the light, and read a few verses from the little Testament, and O, how it warmed my heart to know that Jesus died for me. There is no healing salve like the assurance of the Holy Spirit in the heart. Everybody said I must die, but here I am. I send you three hundred dollars to send Testaments or Gospels the speediest way to the wounded Japs."