About This Book
The author offers firsthand wartime reflections gathered while living near the front, combining anecdote and exhortation to encourage practical Christian care for servicemen. Through accounts of makeshift huts, Y.M.C.A. marquees and officers' messes the narrative praises soldiers' steadiness, recounts scenes of ruined towns, and highlights the quiet sacrifices of volunteers and women serving behind the lines. Emphasizing common-sense, non-sentimental evangelism, the text urges putting faith into everyday acts of service, meeting need rather than insisting on creed, and calls for gratitude and prayer for those who endure combat's hardships.
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