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With this thought in his ered as thehe noticed that the ed up to the front where the lassie stood talking with a group of roup spoke up boldly: "Say, Cap," he addressed her almost reverently, as if he had called her some queenly name instead of captain, "say, Cap, I want to ask you a question So us that if we go over there, and don't cohting for liberty But we don't believe that dope Why--d'ye mean to tell ets saved just because he happened to get shot in a battle? Why soht because anted to; we had to, ere drafted Do you ht over here? I can't see that at all And ant to know the truth You dope it out for us, Cap"

The young captain lassie slowly shook her head: "No, just dying doesn't save you, son" There was a note of tenderness in that "son" as those Salvation Army lassies spoke it, that put theelic touch had set the their lips and eyes and spirits to speak to these, his children, in their trying hour

"You see, it's this way Everybody has sinned, and the penalty of sin is death You all know that?"

Her eyes searched their faces, and appealed to the truth hidden in the depths of their souls They nodded, those boys ere going out soon to face death They illing to tell her that they acknowledged their sins They did not mind if they said it before each other They meant it now Yes, they were sinners and it was because they knew they were that they wanted to knohat chances they stood in the other world

"But God loved us all so much that He wanted to make a way for us to escape the punish the very love of the Father down into theirtone "And so He sent His son, Jesus Christ, to take our place and die on the Cross in our stead Whoever is willing to accept His atonement may be saved And it's all up to us whether ill take it or not It isn't anything we can do or be It is just taking Jesus as our Saviour, believing in Hi Him at His word"