Ridout served as Chaplain with the 38th Regiment in France during World War I, and this is his memoir of sorts. A classic, to be sure!
This edition includes an Active Table of Contents.
Contents:
CHAPTER 1: Departure
CHAPTER 2: A London Air Raid
CHAPTER 3: The Battle of the Skies in Paris
CHAPTER 4: My First Religious Work in France
CHAPTER 5: Doing Field Work on Historic Soil
CHAPTER 6: The Story of a Little French Village
CHAPTER 7: The Story of John Grace of the Army
CHAPTER 8: Under Fire
CHAPTER 9: Chateau Thierry
CHAPTER 10: Moving Toward the Battle Lines
CHAPTER 11: My Baptism of Fire
CHAPTER 12: The Second Battle of the Marne
CHAPTER 13: After the Battle
CHAPTER 14: Fletcher Benson
CHAPTER 15: Peace
CHAPTER 16: Preaching the Gospel in Germany
CHAPTER 17: Some Messages of the War
CHAPTER 18: Joan of Arc
CHAPTER 19: Consecration -- As Illustrated by the War
CHAPTER 20: Some Interesting People I Met During and After the War
CHAPTER 21: The Havoc of War, and After
George Whitefield Ridout was born in St. John's Newfoundland. He went to Boston, Massachusetts, as a young man and was educated at Temple University. He served as Professor of Theology at Upland, Indiana. He served as Chaplain with the 38th Regiment in France during World War I. Following the war he accepted the Chair of Theology as Asbury College where he remained until 1927.
Following his teaching service at Asbury, Dr. Ridout, entered missionary and evangelistic work and traveled extensively in Japan, China, India, Africa, and South America. He was widely known in the holiness camp meetings and churches of the United States. For more than thirty years he wrote a weekly page for the Herald (Pentecostal Herald), published at Louisville, Kentucky. His writings also appeared in other holiness papers including the Advocate. He wrote several books, among them "The Cross and the Flag," "Amazing Grace," and "The Power of the Holy Spirit." He was a member of the British Philosophic Society and a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.
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