Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: KING ARTHUR _From a drawing by L. A. Hume-Williams._] *KNIGHTS IN ARMOUR* _By_ EDWARD S. WOODS, M.A Chaplain of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Author of "Modern Discipleship and What It Means," etc. Foreword by GENERAL SIR WILLIAM ROBERTSON, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., D.S.O., Chief of the Imperial General Staff LONDON: ROBERT SCOTT ROXBURGHE HOUSE PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. MCMXVI _All rights reserved_ To Many Officers and Gentlemen Cadets of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, who by unvarying friendliness end goodwill made easier their Padre’s task this little book is affectionately dedicated *FOREWORD* A feature of peace manoeuvres used to be the "sham fight." In war there are no sham fights. One has to deal then with stern realities, and to carry burdens which seem to be quite beyond one’s powers to sustain. Especially is this the case with those in the position of leaders. In war, more perhaps than in any other business, men feel the need of something more than the mere knowledge of their profession, no matter how complete that knowledge may be. I therefore commend this little book to all soldiers, and more particularly to the younger ones, who desire to go into battle properly prepared, for I am satisfied that definite and practical religious convictions form an essential part of every soldier’s equipment. W. R. ROBERTSON. _August_ 14, 1916. *CONTENTS* I INTRODUCTORY II COURAGE III CHIVALRY IV PURITY V LOYALTY *INTRODUCTORY* "Be strong in the Lord.... Put on the whole armour of God."--EPHESIANS vi. 10, 11. "More than conquerors through Him that loved us."--ROMANS viii. 37. *KNIGHTS IN ARMOUR* *I* *INTRODUCTORY* To every Englishman there is something that stirs the blood and fires the imagination in the ancient legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, the legends that Tennyson has immortalized in his _Idylls of the King_. It was a splendid vision that gripped the men who bound themselves--