LEFT IT TO THE CHAPLAIN.
"Verv touching at times,' says Dean Welldon in his Reminiscences, ' is the simple confidence of th e soldiers in tho chaplain as their friend and their guide. One of the chaplains whom I knew well, related to me the following story. There came to him a Tommy, who said that he wanted to he married. The chaplain was a little taken aback, hut lie ventured to ask further who the soldier's fiancee might be, and again the reply was. '1 leave that to you, sir." " Fuller trust hath no man than this s
SHI<: AGREED. For hours they ' lingered down the Beneath the loifv trees; To take her hand he seamed afraid, Much mere her wn>"«t to squeeze. "All flesh is grass!" at length ho sighed. The maid replied, "It's true. As all must know who've sat beside A youth so green as you!''
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 173, 12 May 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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149LEFT IT TO THE CHAPLAIN. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 173, 12 May 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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