The Church in the Furnace: Essays by Seventeen Temporary Church of England Chaplains on Active Service in France and Flanders (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Church in the Furnace: Essays by Seventeen Temporary Church of England Chaplains on Active Service in France and Flanders

I draw attention to these facts with the hope that I may induce the meticulous critic to look upon our work with less readiness to dwell upon shortcomings which might have been avoided, had the writers been able to work at leisure and with the closer co-operation that would have been possible, if we had waited till the end of the war. But it would seem likely that any value the book may have will be found to lie in the fact that it has the smell of fire in it, because it has been largely written in the very midst of experiences which urge men to speak the truth they see as never before in their lives.

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