The experience through which the army had passed had showed to the military authorities that there was something more subtle, more supernatural behind the life of the men, than one might gather from the King's Regulations.

Our chaplains had done splendid work, and I think I may say that, with one or two exceptions, they were idolized by their units.

I could tell of one (p.

116) of our chaplains who lived continually at the advanced dressing station in great hardship and discomfort, sharing the danger and privation of his men.

The curious thing about a chaplain's popularity was that the men never praised a chaplain whom they knew without adding "It is a pity that all chaplains are not like him".