"DON'T WORRY."
(To THE Eletion OF THE "SPECIATOR."7 Sta,-I notice that several correspondents have told you of the use which they have made, in church and hospital, of Lieutenant Donald Hankey's article " Don't Worry." May I say that I have spoken of Donald Markey and his message-not merely the message contained in that particular article, but that of his book A Student in Arms, and his share of Faith or Fear?-in five different hospitals for wounded soldiers, at more than one church parade, and to congregations of all sorts in church and out of church? To his message men will listen, I have found, with breathless interest and attention, for an hour at a time, and ask for more. A Sister in charge of one hospital said to me quite recently : "I have not listened to such a sensible sermon as that for quite twenty years." It was Donald Hankey's, not mine. I ventured, in reviewing A Student in Arms in one of your contemporaries, to suggest that an inspired Chaplains' Department of the War Office would insist on all its chaplains reading A Student in Arms. I never saw Donald Mulkey, but we corresponded regularly for some months before his' death, and I loved him as a brother. I should like to thank you, Sir, for all you have done in helping to make the man and his message known to the world.-I am. Sir, &c., C. T. F.
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