Here and there in the war area . d. Ourchaplains have made the most of them, andit was inspiriting and touching to see thatlook on the face accompanying the ferventI do which showed how earnest andeffectual the instruction, often given undergreat difficulties, had been. A khaki con-firmation also is an inspiring experience ! Atleast mine have invariably been so. Theyhave nearly all been in a permanent or atemporary church, and I have never had oneyet where the congregation, whether small orgreat, were not as much in earnest as thecandidates themselves. They were theremanifestly to be true and
Here and there in the war area . d. Ourchaplains have made the most of them, andit was inspiriting and touching to see thatlook on the face accompanying the ferventI do which showed how earnest andeffectual the instruction, often given undergreat difficulties, had been. A khaki con-firmation also is an inspiring experience ! Atleast mine have invariably been so. Theyhave nearly all been in a permanent or atemporary church, and I have never had oneyet where the congregation, whether small orgreat, were not as much in earnest as thecandidates themselves. They were theremanifestly to be true and sympathetic wit-nesses—it is always in the presence of Godand this congregation that the baptismalvow has to be renewed and Christ professedbefore men—and to give, as I have often said,a real spiritual send-off to those whoenter upon their new experience of true andfull membership of the Church of God. They have all been good to have, but theconfirmation which stands out most as I lookback was one at a certain base where the. ww H y, < ft. o wo < 5 w I—f Q WITH THE WOUNDED 41 candidates were unusually young. We allknow how many recruited at first con-siderably under age, official eighteen, andwhen physically fit were readily welcomed,but as the war went on great numbers ofthese were sought out, brought away fromthe front and put into thorough the base I have mentioned there were somehundreds of these youths chiefly under thecare in religious matters of one of ourchaplains of forces whose novels are solargely read, and who is of a very earnestand manly type. He must have had goodmaterial to work upon, for boys of that kindhave all the physical qualities and no smallshare of the moral qualities which belong totrue manhood, and the result was somethirty candidates of the very best kind. It isalways a moving thing to address those whoare coming out for God so bravely—and theyneed courage both before and after—and ofwhom one feels that it may be such a sh
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