SOLDIERS AND THEIR RELIGION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR"] SIR,—In your issue of June 24th your correspondent Mr. Lawson has given an explanation of " Soldiers and their Religion." Could I venture a truer explanation ? He views the appeals of many of the soldiers with suspicion, not thinking they have perhaps been prompted by a new conception of life, and, in consequence, to a truer conception of religion. It has been proved many times over that one learns and profits more by them when experienced under stress and strains such as we are under- going now. Hence we have a revelation. " Tommy " finds himself in many situations and predicaments trying in the extreme, and in the lull following has much time to speculate, with the result that many things are revealed to him hitherto unthought of. It is then that he finds he is totally ignorant of many things, both simple and intricate. Far rather ought we to receive his appeals literally with hands out- stretched than view them disdainfully and with suspicion from afar.
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