Now we know a little of what it means, for so many of our best have died for us. So many real if not material crosses have been lifted on the low hills of Flanders; so many have laid down their lives for the race, that we are beginning to understand. There is nothing morbid in these thoughts of Christ dying. The Cross to the soldier is full of sweet helpfulness, it appeals to him with comfort. Everard Owen, in a poem which we are allowed to reprint from _The Times_, called 'A Kind Hill to Souls in Jeopardy,' gives us the idea of tender succour which men see in Calvary: There is a hill in England, Green fields and a school I know, Where the balls fly fast in summer, And the whispering elm-trees grow. A little hill, a dear hill, And the playing-fields below. There is a hill in Flanders Heaped with a thousand slain, Where the shells fly night and noontide And the ghosts that died in vain. A little hill, a hard hill To the souls that died in pain. There is a hill in Jewry, Three crosses pierce the sky, On the midmost He is dying To save all those who die, A little hill, a kind hill To souls in jeopardy. What will the Church do with the men when the God of Battles gives the remnant back to us? We shall have to make room for them. They will want a simple and strong religion. Something to call forth and use the heroic in them. They will not stay in the Church if there is 'nothing doing,' for they are intensely practical. To recapitulate. The war has shown the political unimportance of the Churches in Europe. The Will of God was not expressed clearly enough or sufficiently by them to prevent the war. The World was stronger than the Church and imposed its will upon the Church. Now that we are at war, the Churches are still divided in their witness for righteousness. Even the Church, which, beyond all others, calls itself Catholic, is not catholic in the sense of unity, for it speaks with different voices in Austria, Belgium, Germany, and France. The Church which calls itself Orthodox has failed to give the people a lead in Russia. With us the lack of unity in the Christian Church has weakened its testimony in the nation and marred its work in the Army. Once more, therefore, in the history of the world, the King of Righteousness, who is also the Prince of Peace, is recalled in human life as the God of Battles.