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Show I DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE ft A (By Dr. Jnnuvs I. Vance.) Chairman, Federal Council of Churches of America. He was a young captain, and It was during some desperate fighting: in France. The shoU wereflylng; two o his men had been gassed, and he had to go 200 yards through that hell to got help. As he was about to start back, the surgeon said: "What arc your chances?" "About one in a thousand," thou-sand," he replied. He says that as he .started, someone seemed to tell him to change his course, and he did. He declares he felt an unseen presence with him. and it was qs real as though it had been a man at his side. Ho heard a big" sholl coming. It burst 20 yards away. Had he returned return-ed as ho came, it would have gotten him. Ho made his post in safety. When lie camo homo, ho found that his church Was holding a prayer-meotlng prayer-meotlng for hor boys In France at the time of his peril, Then he understood under-stood I How cheap life would bo if all wo I have is what wo see! How meager our resources and how allm and inade- quate our fighting force If we can count them! There is an unseen ally, i and because there is, for the man who does his duty those who are for I him are always more than those who 'are against him. Therefore let him dismiss his fears. This is not just for a soldier in Franco. It is for tho man on duty In America. It Is for the miner underground, under-ground, for the man who sweats in a steel mill, for the woman who tolls and spins In a factory, for the mother in the home, for ihe millionaire and tho wago-earncr, for priest and publican, pub-lican, for teacher ind statesman, for all who fight a batMe God wants won. There are some things we cannot all see with our eyes nor hear with our 'ears, and they are our real treasures. treas-ures. When tho oyes of the prophet's servant were opened, "ho saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Ellsha." |