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or four long years, in the front line in God's protection by repeating the 91st
warfare of World War I, the British Psalm:
FRegiment commanded by Colonel “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the
Whittlesey had not one casualty. They did Most High shall abide under the shadow of
not lose a single man! They could only give the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my
one explanation for this incredible record. refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I
During those interminable years of danger trust. Surely He shall deliver thee from the
and valour, every officer and every enlisted snare of the fowler, and from the noisome
man in the Regiment daily affirmed his faith pestilence. He shall cover thee with His
feathers, and under His wings shalt thou
trust: His truth shall be thy shield and
buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror and more specifically, the casualties experienced by
by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; adjacent Regiments, the chances that an entire
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in Regiment could go through such front line battles
darkness; nor for the destruction that without a single casualty were astronomically small!
wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at [From: The Mighty Hand of God, Katherine Pollard
thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; Carter, Impact Books, 1991].
but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with
thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the
reward of the wicked. Because thou hast
made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the
most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil
befall thee; neither shall any plague come
nigh thy dwelling. For He shall give His
angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all
thy ways…"
Each officer and soldier in the Regiment
carried a complete copy of Psalm 91 and
either read it or recited it from memory daily.
Considering the casualty totals for the War,
