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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1511, 14 February 1901, Page 19

In the German army attendance at religious service is almost compulsory, yet no Government is more tolerant of the religious comdctions of its soldiers. Each man is given a tiny grey volume, the title of wffiich is “Gebetuch fur Soldaten”—the soldiers’ prayer book. It is supplied from the Berlin depot of the bead Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge in Germany, and is a compendium of Avar prayers for almost eA 7 ery conceivable situation Avith one significant exception—there is, says* the “Home Magazine/’ no prayer in defeat. No man is more scrupulously careful in his religious duties and in the example he sets his army than the Emperor William. Sunday morning invariably finds him at the garrison church, wherever he n ay be.