SPIRITUAL FORCES AND THE WAR.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Those of your readers who are in sympathy with the letter of Mr. Dennis in your issue of October 2nd may be in- terested to read the following extract from a letter received from our Chairman:— " With all due deference to the Church, I do think that in the official' war prayers enough weight has not been given to con- fession of our sins as a nation. This error—if I may call it so—is brought out all the more clearly by the ' note' set at the Interces- sion Service of 3rd January. The form appointed confesses some of our prominent sins and does not merely generalize. Personally, I am more and more fully convinced that we at home can actually hasten the hour of peace if only we will really set ourselves to sea and repent of the sins of the past. Therefore it lies within the power of each one of us to help to shorten the duration of the war! It is a very awful thought, but, I believe, a none the less real fact."
Surely it is the paramount duty of the Church to "give us the load for which we are waiting," and have been waiting for over
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