Chapter XIX 



Caring for Spiritual Needs — The Salvation Anny — Miss Booth at the Front — 

 War Office Recognition — Chaplain Mackenzie and Chaplain Green — With 

 Australian Contingent — Waiting for Orders — Hells in Egypt — Captain 

 Mac's Endeavours — Off to Gallipoli — Constantinople or Loos — Some 

 Printed Leaflets — Grit, Guts, and Gumption — A Husbandy Letter — The 

 Chaplain's Post-Bag — Distracted Parents — Missing Son — A Poet Baker — 

 Broken-Hearted Sergeant — A Joke in Hospital — Salvationists' Huts — 

 Eggs and Tea — Vigorous Prayer Meetings — "When the Devil was Sick" — 

 Unspeakable Horrors — Letters from Home — " I Die quite Happy " — A 

 Military Cemetery — Wondrous Tommies — Chaplain Mackenzie breaks 

 Down — An Inspired Being — Lord French on Salvation Army — Lord Derby's 

 Thanks — Admiral Jellicoe's Tribute — General and Mrs. Booth in India — 

 Father Bergin at the Point of the Bayonet — On the Eve of Battle — A 

 German Pill-Box — A Bursting Shell — Father Bergin Killed — A Quiet Comer 

 in Renninghelst. 



THE spiritual needs of the army have been well catered for 

 in this war as compared with previous campaigns ; the 

 proximity of one of the war zones has made it com- 

 paratively easy for all denominations to be in touch with their 

 followers. 



The Salvation Army, that in its early days was so much 

 ridiculed, has been well represented ; their ranks and titles make 

 it rather confusing to the uninitiated, as both sexes are Cap- 

 tains, Majors, Adjutants, etc. Miss Booth, granddaughter of 

 the founder of the army, is " Adjutant," and now out at the 

 front in France. Their chaplains are not ordained and they 

 have no sacraments, but they do fine work, and more than once 

 during this war have administered the Holy Communion to 

 dying men. 



The Australian Government were the first to recognise the 

 work of the Salvation Army to the extent of appointing their 

 officers as chaplains on an equal footing with the chaplains of 

 the Church of England and other recognised denominations. 

 A little later the New Zealand and the Canadian authorities 

 followed suit ; still later the United States authorities ; last of 

 all the British War Office has recognised them, and as I write 



