25 MARCH 1916, Page 12

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.

[TO THII EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.."] SIR,—AS a supplement to the letter of Captain Lewis Longfield in your last issue, it may be mentioned that the two texts he cites (St. Luke xxii. 36 ; St. Matt. xxvi. 52) were recently put to a " conscientious objector" appearing before the local tribunal in an ancient city of a Southern county. The claimant for exemption was unable to explain away the first ; and, while admitting that Germany was the aggressor in the war, and had therefore " taken the sword," was equally at a loss to understand that those who caused such aggressors to " perish by the sword" were the executors of God's judgment.—I am, Sir, &o.,

J. G. C.