The old farmer kneeling at a soldier's grave in the Confederate cemetery near
Nashville leaves us a good example of gratitude. Some one asked him, "Why do you
pay so much attention to that grave? Is your son buried there?"
"No," he said; "during the war my family were all sick. I felt that I could not
leave them, but I was drafted. One of my neighbors came over and said: 'I will
go for you; I have no family.' He went. He was wounded at the battlefield of
Chickamauga. He was carried to the hospital, and died there. And, sir, I have
come a great many miles that I might write over his grave these words: 'He died
for me.'"
Do you realize that the Saviour died for you and me?
By Ollie M. Robertson. Source: Signs of the Times, Copyright (c) September 11,
1928, Pacific Press. With permission from Dale Galusha
dalgal@pacificpress.com
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