Africa, and Gipsy Smith has just come from the trenches in France.

You would not expect the two books to be similar, but they are: they are
both about “Jesus.” This devotion to “Jesus” binds all time Christians
together, and one day will bring us all more visibly together than we are
now. I love this breezy little book of Gipsy Smith’s; it is not only full
of the love of “Jesus,” but love of our “our boys.” They _are_ splendid. I
spent the first two months of the war as their visiting chaplain—went out
to give them their Easter Communion the first year of the war at the
Front. Gipsy Smith and I made friends together, speaking for them at the
London Opera House on the great day of Intercession and Thanksgiving we
had for them when the King himself called us all together.

Then I like the common sense of it! You must have robust common sense if
you are going to win “our boys.” Anything unreal, merely sentimental,
washy, they detect in a moment. You must draw them “with the cords of a
man and the bonds of love,” and those who read this book will find many a
hint as to how to do it.

A.F. LONDON.





YOUR BOYS


I have just come back from your boys. I have been living among them and
talking to them for six months. I have been under shell fire for a month,