There was a revelation also, wide and deep, to many individual men, of the living force and example of Him who is both God and Brother-man.

Where the associations of (p.

117) church and home had been clean and helpful, men under the batterings of war felt consciously the power of religion.

In the life at the front, no doubt there was much evil thinking, evil talking and evil doing, but there was, underlying all this, the splendid manifestation in human nature of that image of God in which man was made.

As one looks back upon it, the surface things of that life have drifted away, and the great things that one remembers are the self-sacrifice, the living comradeship, and the unquestioning faith in the eternal rightness of right and duty which characterized those who were striving to the death for the salvation of the world.