Your Boys

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.