Yet one more picture of heroism, and it is, indeed, a strange one. There is a touch of unconscious humour in it, but for all that it is grandly heroic. Six Royal Field Artillery men, soldiers of the King and of the Salvation Army too, have been holding daily prayer meetings just behind the guns, and have succeeded in capturing several of their comrades as "trophies." There was no "penitent rail" to which to invite them, and so, notwithstanding the cold, they piled their overcoats together, and kneeling at this improvised "rail" their comrades gave themselves to Christ. What a picture it presents of absolute devotion and of the highest Christian courage! The guns hardly cool from their deadly fire, soon to belch out death again, the men in the depth of winter caring naught for the cold or for the enemy's shot and shell, using their brief interval to lead their comrades to Christ. Pray on, Salvation Army lads! You will fight all the better for your country because of your fight for the King of Kings, and if death stares you in the face you will know that you have spent your last moments in pointing your comrades to the Lamb of God Who taketh away the sin of the world. [Illustration: A NEW FORM OF RED-CROSS WORK. The Red-Cross Motor Field Kitchen, under the direction of Miss Jessica Borthwick, dispenses hot soup to the wounded on the battlefield. _Drawn by S. Begg._] CHAPTER VIII AT THE SIGN OF THE RED CROSS Regimental Aid Posts--What Night Fighting is Like--The Young Doctor--Making the Grave Bigger--Field Dressing Stations--Where Caution is Required--Where Pluck is Shown--When Does the Doctor Sleep?--Nothing but Tragedy--Those Grand Tommies--Winning a V.C. Clasp--A Dreadful Scene--A Kitchener's Train--Devoted Nurses--The Healthiest War--Preventive Measures--Hospital Ships. So complete is the organisation of the Red Cross at the front that it is possible to indicate its work in four terms--Regimental Aid Posts, Field Dressing Stations, Clearing Hospitals, Base Hospitals. Add to these the Home Hospitals, to which the men are finally transferred, and you have the work of the Army Medical Organisation at a glance. During this war the cryptic letters R.A.M.C. and M.S.C. have interpreted themselves into actual glorious service which the British public will ever delight to honour, and it will be borne in mind that most of the Christian ministers who have enlisted during this war, have enlisted into this branch of the service. They bear no arms, but theirs is the highest of all service, that of ministering to the wounded and dying. Such work as this requires heroism of the highest order. Let us glance at each branch of the work, that the service of the Red Cross may live before us.