THE FAITH OF THE TRENCHES The International Sunday School Lesson For Sep tember 29 Is "Review—What It Means to Be a Christian"—l John 3:1-24 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS One curirfUs impression gained byj first-hand observers of the attitude j of the soldiers toward religion is that a surprisingly-large proportion! of the men confounded religion with j a few picayune, man-made rules j which really have nothing to do with' religion. Over and over again, as Ij rode with Canadian and British sol diers on top of London busses, .or satj with them in restaurants and Y. M. | ' C. A. huts and elsewhere; and as I j talked with American boys irt t France, from fair Brittany clear upj to the devastated regions of the trenches, I ran across this preva lent notion that being religious! means abstinence from tobacco, j cards, dancing and theater-going! i Splendid, teverent fellows, who havej entered into the very fellowship of j the cross, say apologetically that j they " are not religious, you knojt" —though they have given their very lives to God, and have come to a vital knowledge of the Saviour. They are "not religious." because forsooth, they play cards in the trenches and gto to the theater if they get a chance, and smoke cigar ets. In their sublimely uncon scious nobility of soul, they do not understand that the preachers and deacons and elders and stewards who; used to talk so complacently about! "doubtful amusements," are now sit-j ting at the feet of our soldiers to be j taught what they have learned about the reality of religion, as they have faced death in France. We are through with our petty efforts to compress the great and glorious Gos pel of the Son of God into a few ar bitrary prohibitions concerning social usages. Religion is more than a matter of hooks and eyes or fashion in dress or rules affecting non-essen tials of conduct. A Christian Is in-r finitely more than a person who does! not do certain specified tlyngs. Is it too much to hope that this war has delivered us from the bondage of man-made sins—none of which| can be so great as the sin of lead ing myriads of young people to be lieve that Christianity is merely an austere set of trifling regulations. j As Soldiers See Christianity We have come to the ending ofj the third quarter of the year's inter national Sunday School Lessons, wherein we have been assigned! weekly "Studies in the Christian Life," the first strictly topical course offered bv the Lew Lesson Commit tee, As a Review Lesson for the present week the twenty millions j of Sundav School members are to< consider "What it Means to Be a Christian." Perhaps I shall be most helpful if I confine my treatment ot the theme to an effort to show that it means to the soldiers to be Lhiis-n tians. There are no essential clii-' ferences between them and the rest j of us. Only they have cast off, with! their civilian garb, many of the for-; mer restraints and conventions of i their thinking.. In the unchurchly atmosphere of a masculine worid they have learned how to discard Incidentals, aid to hold in new pro portion the central and unchanging. integrities. . , 1 First, for seme things the soldier s ( /•taith is not. It is not pious phras-l eology: the army puts the taboo on "the language of Canaan." Nor is| it a spirit of superiority; Pharisaism j has suffered a heavy mortalty in thiSj war. Priggishness and prudishness. posing and pretending, quickly per ish in the army. There is no "goodi ness," or paraded self-righteousness, tolerated. Soldiers do not let their religion withdraw them from com radeship with their fellows. Their faith is not so anemic that it can not stand the blasts of the open air and of real life. As already indi cated, it is not a matter of detailed, rules and regulations. "Where ihe Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" is one of the New Testament words j upon which the religion of the men in the trenches is a continuous com- j mentary. ! Positively, trench religion is faith in Gol, a great God, supreme and intelligent in His present doings, but past finding out in all His ways. There is no unbelief among the sol diers. Men facing death have no 1 time for cheap cynicism and pride-j ful atheism. Soldiers believe in God whose other name is love. There is a new, strange, deep reverence among the troops. One may find mqre religious cock-sureness con ceding God's ways with man in a single summer conference in this country than in all the armies of France. It seems as if the soldiers believe, without attempting to under stand. They freely disregard much; conventional teaching. A Soldier's Rough Rhymes A British Chaplain, who has won the military cross, Rev. G. A. Stud dert Kennedy, has written a little ■ hook of poems, "Rough Rhymes of a Padre," which comes nearer to ex pressing the soldier's religion than many a pretentious tome. Here are, revealing fragments from one Tom my's soliloquy: "Our Padre were a solemn bloke, We called 'lm dismal Jim, It fairly gave ye t'bloomin' creeps, To sit and 'ark at 'im, When he were on wi' Judgment Day, Abaht that great white Throne, And 'ow each chap would 'ave to stand. And answer on 'is own. And if 'e tried to charnce 'is arm, , And 'ide a single sin, There'd be the angel Gabriel, Wi' books to di 'im in. 'E 'at it all writ dahn, 'e said. And nothin' could be 'id, 'E 'ad it all—in black and white, And 'E would take no kid. And evepr single idle word. A soldier charnced to say", 'E'd 'ave it. all thrown back at 'im, I' court on Judgment Day." ' Byway of illustration, the soldier tells the tale of Billy Briggs, who J Igl FRIDAY EVENING, tripped up in a trench one bad night, while carrying tea to the men, a man with uncommon skill in profanl'.v, and who later was killed by a shell: "But Bill, 'o left "im standin' still, ' I He turned the black night blue, J And I guess the Angel Gabriel J 'Ad short 'and work to do. Well 'ow would poor old Bill go on, ] When 'o stood ajl alone, And 'ad to 'ear that tale read out, j Afore the great white throne? ! If what our Padre says is right, j 'E'd 'ave a rotten spell. And finish up ov it, I s'pose, 'E'd 'ave to go to 'ell. And yet e were a decent lad, And met- a decent end. You'll never finish decenter, Than tryin' to 'elp a friend. But some'ow I eanx think it's right. It ain't what God would do. This tale of all these record books, I think it's all napoo, 'Twould let some rotten beggars in, And keep some good 'uns out, There's lots of blokes, what does no • wrong. As can't do nowt but shout." • Then Tommy dreamed one night that he was dead: "I seemed to stand alone, besido A solemn kind o' sea. Its waves they got in my inside. And touched my memory. And day t.y day, and year by year. My life came back to me. And there before me Someone stood. Just lookin' dahn. at me, I And still bc'ind 'lm moaned and moaned That everlasting sea. I couldn't speak. I felt as though 'E 'ad me by the throat. 'Twere like a drowinin' fellah feels, Last moment 'e's afloat. And "E said nowt. 'E just stood still. For I dunno 'ow long. It seemed to me like years and years. But time out there's all wrong. What was 'E like? You're asltin' now. Can't word it anyway. 'E just were 'lm, that's all I knows. There's things as woi*ds can't say. It seemed t<? me as though 'ls face. Were millions rolled in one- It never changed, yet always changed. Like the sea beneath the sun. 'Twere all men's face yet no man's! face, And a face no man can see, And it seemed to say in silent i speech, 'Ye did 'em all to Me. 'The dirty things ye did to them, "The filth ye thought was fine, 'Ye did em all to Me." it said, 'For all their souls were mine.' All eyes were in 'ls eyes,—all eyes. My wife's and a million more. • And then at last 'E said one word, 'E just said one word 'Well?' And I said in a funny voice. 'Please can I go to 'Ell? And 'E stood there and looked at me, And 'E kind o' seemed to grow, Till 'E shone like the sun above I my 'ead. And then 'F answered 'No. 'You can't: that 'Ell is for the blind,! for those that see.' I's got to follow what I's seen. Till this old carcase dies. 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Think what a love-the Fa ther has for us, in letting us be call ed'children ot God!' That is what we are. The world does not recog nize us? That is simply because it did not recognize Him. We are chil dren of God now, beloved; what we nre to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when He appears, we aro to be like Him—for we are to see Him as He is. And everyone who rests this hope on Him, purifies himself, as He is pure. Everyone who commits sin commits lawless ness: sin is lawlessness, and you know He appeared to take our sins away. In Him there is no sin; any one who remains in Him does not sin —anyone who sins has neither seen nor known Hxni. Let no one deceive you. my dear children: he who prac tices righteousness is just, as He is just; he who commits sin belongs to the devil, for the devil is a sinner from the very beginning. . . . We know what love is -by this, that He laid down. His life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood. But whoever possesses tljjs world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain In him? My dear children, let us put our love not into word 3 or into talk but into deeds, and make it real. "Thus It is that we may be sure we belong to the truth and reassure ourselves whenever our heart con demns ust, for God is greater thah our heart, and He knows all- If our heart does not condemn us. beloved, then we have confidence In approach ing God. and wet get from Him what ever we ask. because we obey His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight. Now this is what He commands, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, ar.d love one another as He has com manded us to do." The War Cross Soldier faith is a cross faith. Pro testant chaplains say the army has shown them afresh the place of the Croks and the sacraments. The Saviour's sacrifice is real to these men who reverently feel that they are following in its train. I have put into the form of a cross my little tribute to the troops: What does it mean to be a Chris tian? It means taking up the Cross of Christ, as His follower and helper and friend. It means doing His work, walking Uis way and wearing His name. It means growing like Him and living after the fashion He set, by the Power He gave. It means keeping company with His friends, in high happiness of heart and hope of heaven. It means a passionate devotion to those great ends for which Christ lived and died—a cru sading career for the sons of God. RETURN'S HOME AFTER 18 YEARS ABSENCE Rearing. Pa., Sept. 27.—Absent for eighteen years and thought dead. Walter Shepley, of Rearing, return ed home afttr a trip around the world. 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The Germans had got as far as storming the town itself; their attack was breaking against the Marne* the blowing up of the bridge had stopped them, at the moment when tiley thought themselves masters of that way of access towards the south. They were seeking for other nieans of crossing the river, incessantly bringing up new forces. Under the shells the houses were crashing down, threatening to engulf the de fenders of the burning city. At in tervals the scene was lit up by the crude glare of the rockets sent up by the assailants, which preserve their brillance for nearly two min utes." In the poste de commandement of a colonel there suddenly appears a sort of phantom. It is a man, ab solutely naked, holding a paper be tween his teeth. He is soaked, and streaming with water. "Who are you?" asked the colonel. The spectre makes a gesture to show that he does not want to touch the paper with his wet hands. It is taken from him, and the contents of the note are read. It conieS from a major. His bat talion has remained in the ruins of the old ramparts overlooking the church on tho north side. Surrounded by enemy masses, this battalion has been holding fast for twelve hours. The major, determined not to allow himself to be taken prisoner, an nounces that he is about to attempt to join' the French troops on the opposite shore, and requests that an improvised footbridge be got ready. A sortie, in circumstances such as those, is a mad undertaking, per haps. But so much heroism is spent each day that this determination can cause no astonishment. The naked man, who has brought the news of it, swimming across the Marne under cross-fires, is a colonel, belonging to the small surrounded garrison. He volunteered for the mis sion. which he has just accom plished. "What is your name?" asks the colonel. "Legars." "But how did you manage to get here?" "Well, sir. 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