CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14988, 8 June 1914, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

WAR AXD CHRISTIANITY. TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS." Sir, —I should just like to reply finally to your ''Truly Perplexed" correspondent, who rambled before and now flounders—evidently a hopeless caso. Even if "some of the prieste of old did cay "Thus saith the Lord," it was following their duty to deliver the Divine message, and whilst I don't bold ' a brief for the present-day "parson," yet he never gets so near the hearts of tho people as "when ho holds up the eternal watchword, "For God aod Country." Does your correspondent think that the hundreds of Germans I saw as a boy leaving good positions in England to rejoin the colours for tho war of 1870 did so merely because they were ordered ? Not a bit of it! They had the highest and noblest of motives, innate in every true man, to defend and conserve what is ever sacred and dear. ' May we be preserved from contact with the o*bby creatures designated by "Truly Perplexed," who own neither creed nor country; and as to his statement that the peace parties and anti-militarist faddists speak for themselves, they do —and for nobody else; also, many of them, in a competition with Ananias, would come out easy winners. Yes. "perplexed" one, I'm still smiling, and don't need to do any more thinking-to deal with your sort. —Yours, etc., "QUITE CLEAR."