Hatherly, Coleridge, Roberts, and many another come immediately
 to our minds, while the noble messages and speeches of
the head of our War Office to-day and many a cry from official
lips at the front let out the secret of a religious foundation for
its work that does exist in a nation foolishly reticent as to
its religious sentiment and keenly alert to the least suspicion of
hypocrisy.

And it is this outwardness of religion that is needed more and
more. Men and institutions must question whether hypocrisy
does not exist rather in the hiding up of sentiments strongly held,
than in the outward witness of a religious desire really felt and
which will grow by its expression. The stronger and plainer
expression of worship, the desire for greater latitude in her
services form the cry of the Church for help in enabling men to
give fuller outward expression of the religion that is in them, and
to awake in them a sense of the missionary power of their lives.
Well will it be if our national action in the world settlement be
guided by national conscience founded on religious ideals, and
our social settlement be based on Christian principles and be the
result of national devotion. Is it Utopian, hopeless to pray that
in the more spiritually dangerous times of the coming peace the
whole settlement that must follow shall have its firm basis of
religious spiritual principle ; that the affairs of the world, the
Empire, our native land, our English homes may be firm
founded on that spiritual rock which is Jesus Christ? We may
pray this if we are one and all true to our faith, for if this be so
we too may have right to the Apostolic boast—*‘ I can do all
things through Christ Who strengtheneth me.”