A SOMERSETSFIIRE STORY.
[TO THE EDITOR or TUB "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As I was the means of bringing the saying of the patriotic collier's wife to your notice, I should like to point out to your indignant correspondents that she herself was a Nonconformist, and a member of a chapel of which the person to whom she made the speech was an official. The point Of her remark was not that Nonconformists did not enlist, but that it was not those of importance who did so. In the village in question a certain number of men have joined the Army, but not a single member of the village middle class—shop- keepers, farmers, or master tradesmen—has enlisted belonging either to church or chapel.—I am, Sir, &c., X.
[We publish the above in justice to our informant, but we can insert no more letters on the subject, and, as we have said before, deeply regret to have given pain to Free Church- men. Let us add here that nothing has been more honour- able in the war than the way in which many Free Churchmen who before the war were pacifioists and anti-preparationists have come to be among the most whole-hearted supporters of the policy of fighting to a finish, be the coat never so great. —ED. Speetator.j
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