26 DECEMBER 1914, Page 16

THE VOICE OF AMERICA.

[To TIER EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR...3

EIR,—Your editorial, "How Can I Help?" (Spectator, August 8th), has stirred some hearts this side the ocean. We know you are fighting the battle of Freedom as we fought it in 1861. It has seemed to a hymn lover that nothing yet published could be sung. I enclose 0. W. Holmes's "Army Hymn," published in the Atlantic Monthly, June, 1861, with his suggestion for the tune. A change of a word or two in the fourth stanza will make it as appropriate for you now as for us then, and we may count on Dr. Holmes's approval, if he could speak :-

" We lift our fathers' flag on high."

In some shape may it be of some help and inspiration.— Pittsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.