"In this battle I was using a rifle or a 45 Colt automatic pistol.
"So I lined the Germans up in a line of twos and I got between the ones
in front and I had the German major before me. So I marched them right
straight into those other machine guns, and I got them. When I got back
to my Major's P. C. I had 132 prisoners.
"So you can see here in this case of mine where God helped me out. I had
been living for God and working in church work sometime before I came to
the army. I am a witness to the fact that God did help me out of that
hard battle for the bushes were shot off all around me and I never got a
scrach.
"So you can see that God will be with you if you will only trust Him,
and I say He did save me."
"By this time," he wrote; "the Germans from on the hill was shooting at
me. 'Well, I was giving them the best I had."
That best was the courage to stand his ground and fight it out with
them, regardless of their number, for they were the defilers of
civilization, murderers of men, the enemies of fair play who had shown
no quarter to his pals who were slain unwarned while in the act of
granting mercy to men in their power.
That best was the morale of the soldier who believes that justice is on
his side and that the justness of God will shield him from harm.
And in physical qualities, it included a heart that was stout and a
brain that was clear--a mind that did not weaken when all the hilltop
above flashed in a hostile blaze, when the hillside rattled with the
death drum-beat of machine gun-fire and while the very air around him
was filled with darting lead.
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