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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 25 July 1918, Page 10

Writing in the' London "Daily Teleoroph" in reference to the Church Army, Mr. Philip Gibhs states:-"The.=e eight milps deep of cralerlaml and bogknd— ei«ht mile; deep and a hundred miles long, worst on tho Flanders front, but bad"'everywhere—make a belt in which there i? wretchedness redeemed only by "rent heroism, great patience, and the spirit of British soldiers. They get their reward when Ibeir division is relieved and comes out of the lino. The luclcy one.? make the best of a good time, cleansing: themselves of the grey mud, and oleansitier (heir minds of the things that they have seen in the fields of death. It is bright and warm, and good to play a game of dominoes iu the Church Army hut s , where (here is always a cheery padre and sometimes a piano find a gramophone to take men's minds away from the war, and .the comforts of an older kind of life, pictures round the walls, and a warm fire burning, and ppiii'-c in their lie.'irK These lire gTeat places for men just down from the batllpfields. and the men who run them play Hie game well, and kepp things merry and bri'-'ht." To assist the good work of Ihi Church Army lints money is required. Tlvery donation, large nr small, in thankfully received.