An Experience With the Lord

From one of the world's hottest spots, a letter came last week to the Rev. Edward E. Chipman, pastor of Brooklyn's Lefferts Park Baptist Church. Wrote Chaplain W. Wyeth Willard, with the U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal:

"This is to notify you that one of your young men, Arthur Shepherd Tripp, of 1599 East 54th St., Brooklyn, was baptized by me in the Lunga River, Guadalcanal, B.S.I, on Dec. 2, 1942. Arthur has had a real experience with the Lord as have many other young men who have had battle experience. ... A week ago last Sunday, Nov. 27, Arthur came forward with 17 others in his group, and publicly professed Jesus Christ as his own personal Saviour and Lord. Baptism followed on Dec. 2. ...

"Arthur Tripp has authorized me to submit his name for membership in the Lefferts Park Baptist Church. Of course, we shall have to wait until after the war is over before you give him the right hand of fellowship. It has been a joy to witness the saving and keeping power of Jesus Christ. In many cases I have been, as it were, speaking as 'a dying man to dying men.' Pray that God will give me many souls for the Son of His Love."

Said the overjoyed mother of 21-year-old Corporal Tripp: "He never wanted to go to Sunday school or to church. He said he didn't find it interesting enough. We tried but we finally let him go his way."

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.