exampled in its
smallness.

[Sidenote: _How the Chaplain's own tent was bullet-riddled._]

Late on in the campaign Mr Burgess was moved, not to his own delight,
from near Belfast to Germiston, but was speedily reconciled to the
change by the receipt of the following letter from an officer of the
Royal Berks:--

"Truly you are a lucky man to have left Wonderfontein on Monday;
and it may be that it saved your life, for the same night we were
attacked. It was a very misty night; but we all went to bed as
usual, and at midnight I was awakened by heavy rifle fire. Almost
immediately the bugle sounded the alarm, and everybody ran for
their posts like hares. From where I was it sounded as if the
Boers had really got into camp; but after two hours of very heavy
firing they retired. Yesterday morning, when I went over the
ground, _the first thing I saw was six or eight bullet holes
through your tent_; and one end of our mess had twenty-three
bullet marks in it. Nooitgedacht, Pan and Dalmanutha were all
attacked the same night at exactly the same hour, causing us a
few casualties at each place."

It may perchance be for our good we are sometimes sent away from
places where we fain would tarry.

[Sidenote: _A sample set of Sunday Services._]

The following typical extract is taken from Mr Burgess's Diary:--

"_Sunday, January 20th._--Rode out to Fort Dublin for church
parade at 9 A.M. Held parade in town church at 11. Then rode out
to surrendered burghers' laager and held service in Dutch, fully
a hundred being present. Conducted service for children in town
church at 3.30 P.M., and at 4.30 rode out to Hands Up Dorp; two
hundred present and ten baptisms. Managed to ride back to town
just in time for the evening service in the church at 6.30, which
was well attended."

"Oh, day of _rest_ and gladness!"

As the war was nearing its close, I sent Mr Burgess to labour along
the blockhouse lines of communication, which have Bloemfontein for
their centre. Here the authorities granted to him the use of a church
railway van, in which he travelled almost ceaselessly between
Brandfort and Norval's Pont, or beyond; and thus he too for a while
became chaplain to part of the Guards' Brigade.

CHAPTER VII

THE HELPFUL WORK OF THE OFFICIATING CLERGY

In addition to the eight Acting Chaplains referred to in prev