He was getting a new view of the soldier and of the soldier's needs.
"Unhappily," continued his father, "God is at best a shadowy being, to many of them a stranger, to some a terror.

Barry," he said, "they need some one to tell them the truth about God.

It's not fair to God, you know." Here again his father paused and then said very humbly: "I think I may say, Barry, I know God now, as I did not before.

And you helped me, boy, to know him." "Oh, dad," cried Barry, passionately.

"Not I! I don't know Him at all!" "Let me tell you how you helped me, Barry.