His office being a spiritual one ought to be quite outside military rank.

To both officers and men, he holds a unique position, enabling him to become the friend and companion of all.

Bishop Gwynne upheld the spiritual side of the chaplain's work, and by establishing conferences and religious retreats for the chaplains, endeavoured to keep up the sacred standards which army life tended so much to drag down.
The Cathedral at St.Omer is a very beautiful one, and it was most restful to sit in it and meditate, looking down the long aisles and arches that had stood so many centuries the political changes of Europe.

One morning when the sun was flooding the building and casting the colours of the windows in rich patterns on the floor, I sat under the gallery at the west end and read Shelley's great elegy.

I remember those wonderful last lines and I thought how, like an unshattered temple, the great works of literature survive the tempests of national strife.