I find officers and men eager enough to praise those who were their own chaplains but always adding to it a condemnation of those who were not.

An officer said to me one day that the war had enabled chaplains to get to know men.

I told him that the war also had enabled men to get to know chaplains.
Large numbers of men in ordinary life are very seldom brought into contact with religion.

They have the crude notion of it which they carried away as unfledged boys from Sunday School, and a sort of formal bowing acquaintance through the conventions of later life.

In the war, when their minds and affections were put to a severe strain, it was a revelation to them to find that there were principles and relationships of divine origin which enabled the ordinary human will easily to surmount difficulties moral and physical, and which gave a quiet strength that nothing merely earthly could supply.