For Service of our Soldiers – Four World War One chaplains: Walden, Forbes, Cuttriss, Proctor
War has been variously defined. Douglass Jerrold said of it: “What a finelooking thing is war? Yet dress it up as we may and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing songs about it, what it is nine times out of ten but murder in uniform.”ii Napoleon’s view was that it was “a trade of barbarians—the whole art of which consists in being the strongest on a given point.”iii His great rival, the Duke of Wellington said, “Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war you would pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing again.”iv Shakespeare has Mark Antony
say, “In these confines, with a monarch’s voice, cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war.”v The Great War proved all these assessments to be true.
