have resigned their
churches for the period of the war. Many others are well-known
ministers, laymen, or professors who have come over for a period of
several months of service. The list of the men who have been serving
here contains many distinguished names. There is Professor Burkett,
the New Testament scholar of Cambridge, in charge of one of the huts;
Professor Bateson, the great biologist of Cambridge, who has been
lecturing on his subject, and who was swept off his feet by the
response which he received from the troops. He stated that he was able
to learn more from these men than in months of research in his
laboratory, where he had been shut up for most of his life. Professor
Holland Rose, also of Cambridge, has been lecturing to the troops on
European history, interpreting the war to the soldier. Professor Oman,
of the same university, has been dealing in his lectures with the
historical problems of the war. Rev. E. A. Burroughs, of Oxford, has
been giving religious lectures. Principal D. S. Cairns, of Aberdeen,
has had crowded meetings night after night for his apologetic lectures,
and the questions raised in the open discussions would make one think
he was in a theological seminary. Principal Kitchie, of Nottingham,
has been lecturing on European history and the Balkan situation.
Bishop Knight is giving his time seven days a week to looking after the
spiritual and ecclesiastical needs of the men, as many seek
confirmation and partake of the Holy Communion before going up to the
front. Here are Scotch ministers, Anglican clergymen, and laymen,
working side by side in a great ministry of service.

A series of missionary lectures has helped to give the men a new world
view of Christianity. It has lifted the simple villager, and the man
who has never known anything save the narrow ruts of his own
denomination, above the petty interests and divisions of his former
life to face world problems and the wide extension of the Kingdom of
God. Four lecturers have followed each other to present a great world
view to the men in these thirty huts: Butcher of New Guinea showed the
effect of the impact of the Gospel upon primitive native races;
Farquhar of India showed the power of Christianity over the great
ethnic religions of India; Lord Wm. Gascoyne Cecil came next on the
transformation of China, and was followed by Dennis of Madagascar and
Dr. Datta, a living witness of the power of Christianity in the great