ROWLAND, To the Editor of the "Norru-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—Undey the circumstances I cannot use a pseudonym but will try to be none the less frank. "One of the Crowd" wrote very courteously concerning me and is quite right in his supposition that my work in France quickened my spenonietion for the man outside the walls. Indeed I came to the conclusion that the British soldier's character Wag our best asset in the war.
The point at issue is the neutrality observed by the best of fellows towards the Church in which so many were brought up. I recognize that the war generation "arrived" with extraordinary rapidity, both girls and young men, through the sensational events and experiences of our time. And it is hard for them not to be impatient with churches which are so often content with Victorian phrases, 18th. century doctrines. and medieval theology. But every man knows in his heart that what the churches stand for cannot possibly be reduced to intellectual terms, that their essential concern is with the bent of a man's will and the real issue of his life. That is what makes the man outside\the gates a little wistful and nos quite satisfied.
It is after all a perennial question presented to the new-comers in every age. Plate noticed the absence of the privileged young men of Greece from the study circles that discussed how best to tive. I think the answer lies partly in this, that the important thing is the living itself. And so long as the living is clean, straight and unselfish it means much more in the sight of a Christian God than much chanting on the subject.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.