Your Boys
Gipsy Smith
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Description
Gipsy Smith wrote this wartime appeal after six months living among British soldiers at the front. A foreword by the Bishop of London introduces it. Smith tells of preaching within forty yards of German lines. He slept in a cellar where his boots froze to the floor. Sour French bread and hot sugared milk water comforted him most, he says.
He praises Y. M. C. A. marquees serving walking wounded near the trenches. Ten thousand cases got hot drinks in three days at three marquees. One waiting colonel, haggard and cold, simply said to carry on. Smith argues Christian work means doing, not preaching alone.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gipsy Smith |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |