The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-09
CBy w. T. Ellis

plished the stupendous task Of sup.
plying millions OF Testaments to the
soldiers and sailors of the nations at
war
They also came to aid in the organ
ization Of similar movements in Amer.
lea which will place copy of the New
Testament in the hands Of every uni
formed man in the nations service.
The distribution has already reached
hundreds Of thousands, with more BIZ
bles going into camps, cantonments
and training stations as rapidly as the
printing presses can supply them.
The ENJOYS are representatives of two
organizations which have directed this
work on the battlefields Of Europe.
They are Francis c. Brading secretary
of the Scripture Gift Mission, of Lon
don, and George T. b. Davis, who serv-
ed as agent for the Pocket Testament
League in England
With the expert advice of these men
to aid them, the American branches
of the organizations which they repre-
sent are going ahead rapidly with the
task Of distributing copies Of the Scrip
ture through the army and navy. Of
ficials in Washington, by lending their
aid to the movement, have shown sig
nificantly that they recognize the serv.
ice that these organizations are per
forming just as official England did
when her big army was formed.
Consgnments Of supplies as they
leave the army and navy depots CON
tain hundreds Of Testaments provided
through the distributing organizations.
For example a benefactor lets 1t be
known that he will purchase enough
Testaments to supply a regiment Of
soldiers The books are purchased
through one Of the societies, dispatched
to an army supply depot and forward
ed To the regiment with such other sup
plies as are being shipped.
\ Message From the President
On the fly leaf of a Testament print
ed for the American soldier and sailor
by the Scripture Gift Mission is an
eloquent Acknowledgement Of the impor.
tauce Of the Scriptures as "a guide to
right living, written by President VIII.
son. Former President Roosevelt wrote
"A similar message which accompanies
the Testaments distributed in the army
and navy by the American Bible Socie-
Is. In England, the Testaments bore
a message from Lord Roberts.
Thus the work is being organized in
America The nations allies have sent
their experts in war-making here to
teach us TO avoid mistakes which they
have made. Their aviators are train
ing American youths, their army OF
flcers are teaching the American sol.
dier trench warfare. And now their
experts are helping To organize plan
for giving our army and navy the Bi.
BILE
These ENJOYS have brought to Ameri
ca some notably interesting stories OF
their work. Secretary Brading, of the
Scripture Gift Mission, tells Of a young
soldier who was shot in the trenches
the bullet partly penetrating a small
Bible in his breast pocket. The point
of the bullet stopped at the seventh
verse Of tine niuetyfirst Psalm. "a
thousand shal lfall at thy side. and ten
thousand shall fan at thy side and ten
not come nigh thee
Bibles Escape Submarines.
AIr Davis relates the remarkable fac
that. of the thousands OF Testament
which the Pocket Testament Leagu,
has shipped from England 10 Americ.
since the beginning Of tine war; not ont
consignment has been lost through sub
marines Ships carrying these Testa
meuts have miuculousy escaped th
Uboats
Here's a letter which "a young British
soldier writes 20 the Scripture Gift Mis-
sion. Of got Testament az Hau5
a bullet went into 70 as far as HC
brews 1925. See that ye refuse mo-
him that spoaketh For If they cscape
not who refused him that spake o
earth. much more shall not We oscap,
II we turn away from him that spcaf
eth from heaven God spoke tu m
through 10, and ! got saved in Oh
trench au hour afterwards
one OF the significant facts in th
reports OF both these ENJOYS Is the eal
erness in which the enlisted men D
Europe have been 10 receive the book
They crowd about the distnbutiug hea,
quarters as soon as they learn that
supply has just come from home an
fairly beg FOR them Chaplains and y
NJ. c. a. secretaries at the front an
continually writing for additional SUI
plies.
4 letter from "a military camp In tl
south of England which had just sci
its quota Of troops 90 France. "l wouI
like YOU 10 know that two men wl
were left behind 90 clear up the cam
after the troops had left told me th.
among AN the rubbish 10 bee buwc
they did not find one Of the little Go
pels, nor did they during those fi'
months they were here ever see oi
thrown away
The soldiers carry them into IN
trenches and even into battle. a cha
lain writes Yesterday ON the batt
field OF Gommocourt, ! found weat
er.staincd New Testament among u
kit and, | am sorry 90 say the bon
Of a British hero. ON the same fio
friend of mine found another Ia
about In fragments lie picked mp
fragment and found the words ON OF
side. In those days shall aifliction su'
as was not from the beginning of q
creation which God creates unto th
time. neither shall bc'-Mark l39.'
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