Produced by David Clarke, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * WITH OUR FIGHTING MEN [Illustration: "WE BESEECH THEE TO HEAR US GOOD LORD." _See page 57._] With Our Fighting Men THE STORY OF THEIR FAITH, COURAGE, ENDURANCE IN THE GREAT WAR BY WILLIAM E. SELLERS _Author of "From Aldershot to Pretoria"_ WITH COLOURED AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS LONDON THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY 4 Bouverie Street & 65 St. Paul's Churchyard PREFACE [Illustration] In sending forth this book I wish to acknowledge the kindness and co-operation of many friends, new and old, who have made my task easy and my story, so far as possible, complete. In the first place, I express my hearty thanks to the Rt. Rev. Bishop Taylor-Smith, D.D. (the Chaplain General); Revs. E.G.F. Macpherson, M.A., and F.G. Tuckey (senior Church of England chaplains at the front); Rev. J.A. M'Clymont, D.D., V.D. (Convener of the Church of Scotland General Assembly's Committee on Army and Navy chaplains); Rev. J.H. Bateson (Secretary of the Wesleyan Methodist Army and Navy Board); Rev. J.H. Shakespeare, M.A. (Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Free Church Army and Navy Board); Rev. E.L. Watson (senior Free Church chaplain at the front); General Booth and Brigadier Carpenter (of the Salvation Army); Mr. A.K. Yapp (General Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association); and several others. In the second place, I acknowledge with gratitude the help I have received from reports in the _Methodist Recorder_, _Methodist Times_, _United Free Church of Scotland Record_, _Church Pennant_, _Baptist Times and Freeman_, _Guardian_, _Guy's Hospital Gazette_, _War Cry_, and many other papers, to the respective editors of which I tender my thanks. I also wish to express my cordial thanks to my colleague, the Rev. E.G. Loosley, B.D., for the painstaking care with which he has revised the proofs of my book. I hope and pray that the story recorded in these pages may quicken interest in Christian work among soldiers and sailors, and so help to extend the kingdom of Christ.