The special correspondent of the Times at British Headquarters has
an excellent letter in Tuesday's issue on the work done by the Army chaplains at the front. There were fifty-four with the original Expeditionary Force ; there are now over one thousand on the Western Front. Of these, sixty per cent. are members of the Church of England, while the Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Wesleyans, and other denominations represented by the United Board have four hundred and sixty chaplains, among whom are three Jews. The utmost goodfellowship prevails among the chaplains of the different Churches, who not only are frequently called upon to bury the dead under fire, but when in the trenches are constantly exposed to the same dangers as the men. All chaplains are not equally adapted to Army work, but the general consensus of Army opinion is that the chaplains out at the front are in the mass excellent and wield an enormous influence for good ; while in return they own to having learned much from their men, the official report of one chaplain of wide experience de- claring that " such an upright body of men as our present Armies never took the field in the world's history."
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