DURING the World War a captain noticed a private in the trench reading a pocket New Testament. He hated God, so sneered at the private, saying, “What are you doing with that Book? It will make you as cowardly as an old woman.”
“Not at all, sir,” said the private. “Since I came to read and understand this Book I have no fear of death.”
At that moment a shell dropped in the trench and the private was blown to bits. The captain saw the Book was unharmed, so he took it to his dugout and read it. Light shone into his darkened heart. He turned to the Lord whom he found gracious, and ready to receive him. Then he got leave and led his family to God. When he went back to the battlefield, he took a large quantity of New Testaments along which he distributed to the men in the trenches, and thus became a bright testimony for Christ there.
ML-01/26/1969