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“All the way from the port of debarkation to the red,
quivering lip of the inferno, I saw clergymen serving the
troops as Y.M.C.A. secretaries, a oily by dint of inquiry
could I find their denominational affiliation. They were do
ing things also which had ne ver been taught in their respec
tive theological seminaries. A prominent Baptist minister
had been handling boxes fc r months, ten hems a cay, in a
Y.M C A. warehouse; an Episcopalian rector had ceased to
think about the channel whence his grace of apostolic suc
cession flowed, and was run ning the cinema for a circuit of
Y.M.C.A. huts; a Presbyterian divine drove a supply camion
day after day, and had not found time to preach a sermon
since his arrival in France; a. Methodist preacher or<~ ized
the athletics for an entire division, including F ^ and
wrestling, and he did it with all the fervor that his minister
ial predecessors had put into camp-meeting revivals.”
JOSEPH H. ODELL, Pastor First Precby
terian Church, Troy, N. Y., in the Nov
ember Atlantic Monthly.
Mr. Odell has spent many months at
the front.
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