The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-09-11
THE BULLET STOPPED THERE
FiiPpanf Remark 81 = Soldier And
How IL Broaghf with Force 10
His Heart Gods Message.

saved lie II battle are 10 novelty; bu
their eoUnorresz does rot cheaper
them, il they are true. and II their Mora
not oxer6one-
In recent EPW0rth league meeting
! returned soldier told his experience
with his pocket Testament. Il was
handed 10 him on the cars while on his
way TO the south with his regiment.
he had taken I treat at the last sta
ion. and 10 use his own expression,
was feeling gay"
-All right, be said. laughingly. 10 the
donor Of the book. ..I'll carry il. TN
be good 10 stop a bullet
Some weeks afierFrsrd came the
fighting 81 Santiago. and on The day Of
The famous charge OF the rough riders
the young soldier was hit, and left living
among the wounded. He regzined con-
seiousneks while under the surgeons
hands and heard him say: THAT was
q close call" A Mauser bullet in his
breast had been extracted il had bare
ly reached his heart and stopped.
What is IL, doetOr2" he whispered,
but the busy surgeon had. hurried on
10 his next patient. Gen. wheeIer's
daughter was there, ministering to the
bleeding men. and he beckoned 10 her
and asked her to tell him about his
wound. She brought his pocket Testa-
ment, which he had carried in his
blouse. and showed him hole through
it, made by the deadly lead. and told
him how narrow his escape had been.
Piercing the book in an oblique diret-
iion. ihe missile had found exactly -
sistance enough 10 arrest it at the dan
ger line.
For the first time the reckless soldier |
took an interest in the gift he had sc-
cepted with a jest. He remembered
with a strange fhrob the fippant re-
mark he bad made on the train. lie |
kept the Testament near him. and in
fhs tedious hours of his convalescence
he often turned the leaves and noted
the texts which had bssH crossed by the
bullet.
There was one verse that he could not
get beyond. The shot had cut through
the middle of il, and left its scar there
like an index.
God so loved the world that He goye
His only begotten Son, that whosoeFer
belieyeth in Him might not perish, but
have everlasting life."
Many times a day he read the verse
over and thought about it. His life .
must have been worth saving, he said to :
else he would have been under
ground with his buried comrades. But
everlasting life. Something forever
beyond and above fatal woundsi That \
meant more than the accident" that
aved one man. God has declared ever !
asting life TO men, by Jesus Christ, His !
son. The soldier became the pupil of
lis book. To believe is to accept. To y
ccept is TO be obedient. To obey is to Y
make Christ the example and His y
eaehings the rule OF life. 1t was no \
elusion when his heart told him that Y
e was willing TO accept this formula \
nd TO ''liye by it," = !.
The story is not remarkable one N
. material or initial incident. ANY y
ther book than the New Testament y
'ould have diverted the shaft Of death "
$ easily; but IFS blow might not have =
ointed him TO word that brought y
changed motive in life with ii. Out Of y
his distinction. blossoms the lesson, y
nd a natural circumstance takes an \
Iernai character. Whether the means "
ere casual or divine, the effect must be y
IT to testify. The man who went 10 v
le war a scoffer came back changed y
moral purpose. He had become a '
hristian, because be had become fol- y
wer Of Cbrist.-Youth's Companion. n
The Sioux and Blackfeet will at part Y
lg dig their spears in the earth as a =
gn OF confidence and mutual esteem
ms Is the origin of the term 'rburyine :
lie tomahawk." y
!. me genial Jap win take his slipper =
as you depart and say with a smile. s.
Oh are going to leave my despicable --
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