y brother uses in Westminster Abbey at the time of
this war, the opening sentence is 'The Lord our God be with us,' and
the answer is, 'As He was with our fathers.'

The College is getting on well. You must come up and see me this year,
while you still know a number of men. I have now a little evening
service--compline--in my rooms at 10 o'clock; Masterman asked me to
have it. He asked men to come, and they asked others. I purposely
refrained from asking any one. We are sometimes a goodly number. I
think it is helpful to those who come. It is, I know, to me. We have
a hymn when we have sufficient musical talent!

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_To G. J. C._

Christ's College, Cambridge: 1900.

Gwatkin has exploded Anthony, 'who never existed.' But for all that I
think Anthony is much like Adam and Eve. The originals may 'never have
existed.' Yet their story belongs to all time. And there will be
Anthonies and Adams and Eves to the end of time. It comforts me to
feel that that which makes for evil is not my true self, but a
wretched, cunning animal existence independent of me, existing before I
came into being, although capable of appealing to me--a serpent.

I am half glad and half sorry to hear of your harmonium. Public
worship is a terribly difficult thing, and it is well at times that we
should realise its difficulties, and have it stripped bare of many
helpful accessories. Yet worship in a village church impresses me. As
in a college chapel, I realise then the continuity of the race. An old
church tells me of generations of men who lived my life, to whom the
present was everything, and the dead almost nothing, who never could
seriously believe that some day the world would whirl and follow the
sun without them. It tells me more than most things of what St. Paul
means when he said that we were all making one perfect man. And I am
humbled and thankful to know that I in my generation can do something
towards the Christ 'that is to be.'

Read the Old Testament itself. Nothing will {123} atone for lack of
knowledge of the Bible. Robertson Smith's and Adam Smith's books
(especially the latter's) on the Old Testament Prophets ought to prove
useful. . . . When I call a man by his Christian name, I usually make
it a rule to pray for him. I shall do so in your case. I will try to
pray every day. I wonder whether you would sometimes pray for me: I
believe immensely in the power of prayer. It is the greatest favou