CLERGY OF MILITARY AGE.
(To TEZ EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."]
Srn,—The letter under the above heading will be warmly welcomed by many of your readers. No doubt some of the clergy and other ministers of religion have resigned their appoiutmerats at the call of duty and patriotism, but unpatriotic ecclesiastical authority has stood in the way of the many. The time is surely coming when England will have no need of those who are too sacred to fight for faith, for home, for honour, and for righteous- ness. Our Church, indeed any -Church, can only remain an integral part of the nation by being one with the nation in this great and holy war. It is State action, as your correspondent writes, that alone can rescue us from conventionality and tradition and petty scruples, as it has the people and the Church of France. The .story of the valour and sacrifice of the soldier-priests of
France will live in history.—I am, Sir, he., C. E. BALLANCE. Harley Street, TV.
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