WAR AND RELIGION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 311, 8 October 1915, Page 2

WAR AND RELIGION.

People are apt to suppose that a powerful revival of the (religious spirit in France-will mean a return to the conditions that existed before tihe recent separatism of Church and State and the taking away of the business of education from the religious orders. But that seems unlikely. The old status broke down; It wall not be restored. Recent rules may be modified, but there is mere likely to be a revival of fs.ith along new .lines than any wholesale reversion to past conditions. A s to that, there is something significant in the postscript of a letter of a French quartermaster-sergeant from the trenches in Flanders to friends in New Ycrfc who had sent him magazines and tobacco. "P.S.—-Before seeing death very near, as I did manytimes since six months, I was net religious at all; now I'm a real Christian —I don't mean Catholic or any other sect. And they ar e all like me. Reading and smoking are the icnly joys in the trencihes."