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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 22, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 30.

O. H. M. S.

THE following story is told of Henry Drummond when at school in Stirling:

“Our present king (then Prince of Wales) was married, and the boys in Stirling school celebrated the event with many festivities and decorations. Among other things, they cut out designs of Prince of Wales’ plumes in pink and blue paper, and pasted them in the windows. The supply of pink paper running short, a sixth-form boy said to Drummond (then a small boy), ‘Drummond, run down-town and buy two-penny worth of pink paper,’ to which he replied, ‘Shan’t.’ Then the big boy looked at him, and he knew what that look meant, as he said, ‘Drummond, you’d better skip, and remember it’s “O. H. M. S.” (On His Majesty’s Service.) Then, says Drummond, I started off. And I didn’t let the grass grow under my feet as I fled to the town for that pink paper, and all the way down and back I kept saying to myself, ‘O. H. M. S.’ And many times in my Christian life, when I’ve had hard, uninteresting duties to perform, I’ve said to myself, ‘O. H. M. S.,’ and this has made them easy and light.”