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remaining thousands (well over 100,000) had never seen or read the word of God. Now that they have received the Word with great and indescribable joy, from us and our Belgian-soldier representatives (numbering over 150), they are continuing to receive this Word and to accept as their Saviour and Lord the One of whom it speaks. Perhaps the most beautiful thing about the new life upon which thousands of those
plete New Testament. The little Gospels are given only to non-members. This League now enrolls over 3,000 members, and every day its numbers are growing. One worker wrote us with real pathos: “Only yesterday one boy joined the League, and having accepted his New Tes tament, spent almost the entire day reading it. Today he was killed, but how happy we are to know that he had accepted the Word of God before his death.”
Wounded ^“Tommies” The letters from these men present a mine of wealth of Christian testimony, and the extracts which, follow speak for them selves more Strikingly than could any words of ours. One worker writes: “I have well received your ‘envoi’ of five French Testaments and five Flemish Tes taments. I Jiave been enchanted to receive these, and1to distribute them to my com rades. You could not believe what com forting effects these Holy Scriptures pro duce in us, in our sad hours of privation. Think how much these Books mean to us
Mrs. Norton Among soldiers have entered since reading the Bible, is the- eagerness with which they pass on the Word to others, and for the Gospel itself they have a love touchingly loyal and devoted. ; It was a Belgian soldier, Peter van Koeckhaven, who over a year ago founded the “Ligue des Saintes Escritures,” or the Scripture League, by becoming a member of which by signing the membership card, the soldier is privileged to receive a com-
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