91ST PSALM BECAME THEIR IMPENETRABLE SHIELD

For four long years, in the front line warfare of World War I, the British Regiment commanded by Colonel Whittlesey had not one casualty. They did not lose a single man! They could only give one explanantion for this incredible record. During those interminable years of danger and valour, every officer and every enlisted man in the Regiment daily affirmed his faith in God's protection by repeating the 91st Psalm: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. "I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust. "Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome 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 by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; "Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. "A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. "Only whith 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, and more specifically, the casualties experienced by adjacent Regiments, the chances that an entire Regiment could go through such front line battles without a single casualty were astronomically small! [From: The Mighty Hand of God, Katherine Pollard Carter, Impact Books, 1991].