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broad phylacteries. He looks for the proof of faith in moral 

 heroism." 



Most, if not all men, have religion deeply rooted in their 

 hearts, only they call it by the name of " honour." 



One soldier who on his way out from home had boasted that 

 he believed in no religion, was seen by his companions, when 

 some desperate fighting was taking place, the earth rocking and 

 the skies seemed to be falling, to suddenly drop upon his knees 

 praying. 



" Hullo, old chief ! thought you didn't hold with prayer 

 and such-like," said a pal. 



" No," came the reply, " but a fellow cannot be in a place 

 like this without believing in a God or a devil, and as I cannot 

 believe in a supreme devil I am driven to pray to a supreme 

 God." 



Reasoning machines pale before the situations they have to 

 face to-day, they have no logic ready at hand. How can a man 

 without faith find words wherewith to comfort a poor mother 

 to whom he has to return the letters from her dead son's pocket, 

 soaked through and through with his life-blood ? How can 

 moments like these be faced in cold reasoning ? Where would 

 the men be without religion and faith, when day after day the 

 pal of the morning with whom they cracked jokes becomes by 

 evening a silent " It " ? 



To quote again from Mr. Spurr's little book. He tells a 

 story with pride and affection of one of his Free Church boys. 

 " The Welsh Regiment were handing over their trenches at 

 Landmerke to the French at 3. .30 in the morning. A Black 

 Maria from the Germans fell upon a platoon, killing twenty-one 

 at once and wounding nineteen others, all of whom had lost a 

 limb. The remaining nine men cleared after recovering from 

 the shock, but one remained until dawn, creeping about amongst 

 the wounded, though being shelled all the time. He was 

 bandaging up the maimed as best he could, then made his way 

 to the village, procured a horse and galloped off for the field 

 ambulance and made his report to the Colonel, urging upon him 

 the necessity of bringing back the wounded. The Colonel 

 considered the firing much too dangerous, but could not resist 

 Evans' entreaties, so still under heavy shell-fire the ambulance, 

 guided by Evans, made its way to the desired spot and collected 



