CHRISTIANS AND SOLDIERS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 67, 21 June 1912, Page 14

CHRISTIANS AND SOLDIERS.

(To the Kditor of the Press," Christdiurch ) Sir, —"Will you kindly print the following quotations in juxtaposition, and tell mc who is right, the (Jommander-in-Chief, the- scholar and the Christ, or the Chaplain-Captain P —Yours, etc., ROBT. M. LAIN'G.. ''His experience of v/jr wns that tfio man who made the host soldier was tho man who was Iho l«Mt Christian." — Chaplain-Captain Burton (.in Chrrair church "i'ress"). ,- As a nation we are- bred up to feel it a disgrace to siumyhml by falsehood. The word spy convoys something as ropi Isivo as slave. Wo will keop hammering along with tho conviction that liorcsty is tho best policy, and that truth always wins in the long run. These pretty little sentiments do wel) for a child's copybook; but a man who a-cts upon thorn had bolter sheathe his fcword for over." —"SoWior'u PocketUook," p. 81, Lord WoUoley.

"H would be ilifli'-ult to conceive ft disposition more remote from Liv , morals of ordinary lite, not to speak of Christian ideals, than that which the ■loldicis most animated uith the fir" and p:\s-iion that lead to victory, rush forward to bayonet tlie loe-."—Leeky: "Map of Life," p. 6-. "R"si-,t not him that is evil ; but whosoever smiteth thee on tlie right cheek, turn to him the other al*>."--Jesu.-. ol Nazareth.