At a Free Church demonstration at the City Temple on
Tuesday Mr. Lloyd George made a stirring appeal for recruits. One of the greatest generals in the French Army had said to him lately : " The man who is responsible for this war has the soul of a devil." Germany while professing peace bad in cold blood intended, planned, and organized wholesale murder on peaceable neighbours. If this premeditated treachery to humanity passed unchallenged, civilization was a failure. It was necessary to fight—Christianity did not sanction peace at any price. But mere]y to recognize the justice of the war was not enough. He despised those who approved of the war, but thought it was for others to make the necessary sacrifices. They were traitors to their country and their children. Let Nonconformists throng to the Army. Their heroism would proclaim to the world that " justice is the best sustenance for valour, and that their valour has won a lasting triumph for justice."
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