BATTLE MIRACLES

Evening Star, Issue 15892, 26 August 1915, Page 4

BATTLE MIRACLES

STRANGE STORIES FROM LAND AND SEA. ’ Dr R. F. Horton, preaching at the Broughton Congregational Church, Manchester, (says the ‘ Bradford Observer ’) made reference to reports of supernatural occurrences on the battlefield. Dr Horton believes that, at all events, some of these reports are completely authenticated. There are, he Said, wonderful stories coming to us in this time of war—some of them verified and some of them floating about and difficult to verify and fix—blit _ they are . stories which show quite distinctly how men to-day are kept in the secret places of the most Nigh, under the shadow of the Almighty, in the midst of unexampled peril. There is a ■story—repeated by so many witnesses that if anything can be established by contemporary evidence it is established—of the retreat from Mens. A section of the line was in imminent peril and it seemed as if it must inevitably be borne down and cut off. Our men saw a company of angels interposed between them and the German cavalry and the horses of the_ Germans stampeded. Evidently the animals beheld what our men beheld. The German soldiers endeavored to bring the horses back to the line, but they fled. It was the salvation of our men. I had news from the Dardanelles last week but one. A sailor on one of our transport ships told me in the simplest language how airships of the enemy came over the troopship dropping bombs. The captain, who is a man of God, gave the order to the men to pray, and they did prayt The 18 bombs, which seemed to be falling from overhead, fell harmlessly into the sea. , —A Protector in White.— Of another story which he told Dr Horton said he did not know how far they must take it literally. Now and again, he continued, a Wounded man on the field is conscious of a comrade in white coming with help and even delivering him. One of our men who had heard of this story again and again and had put it down to hysterical excitement had an experience. His division had advanced and was not adequately protected by the artillery. It was cut to pieces, and he himself fell. He tried to hide in a hollow of the ground,- and as he lay helpless, not daring to lift his head under the ha'l of fire', he saw one in white coming to him. For tho moment he thought it must be a hospital attendant or a stretcher bearer, but lib, it could not be ; the bullets were flying all round. The whiterobed came nearer and bent over him. The man lost consciousness for a moment, and when he came round he seemed to be out of danger. The white-robed still stood by him, and the man, looking at his hand, said: “You are wounded in your hand." There was a wound in the palm. He answered: “ Yes, that is an old wound that has opened again lately.” The soldier says that in spite of the perikahd his wounds he felt a joy he had never experienced in his life before. Is it not, an extraordinary fact, Dr Horton proceeded, that, although the carnage is so fearful, there are evidences accumulating every day of those \Vho are kept under the shadow of the .Almighty— men who ate quite conscious that prayer is heard and answered for them ? These men, if they are ultimately spared, will come back to our country and bur churches to begin a perfectly hew era iii the history of Christendom and to change the whole aspect of our church life. They will come, back to tell us of a living.God who is able to help, aiid of a SaviouH.--.who shows Himself in the hour of peril* and when all earthly succour seems to fail.