GOD'S PLAN 19

lives for what is really a slackness within us in
this life.

During the Great War a very visible mark
was made on mankind ; the great one-pointed-
ness of life which developed at that time was
plain to see. We all had one aim, to help the
War. It was a wonderful time in which to live,
especially in those countries which took the
most prominent part in the War. One thought
existed in all minds, and that was to work for
the War, through this a marvellous unselfish-
ness seemed to burst into life. I remember at
one of my "seeings-off" at a station, when the
War looked almost hopeless to the cause of the
Allies, how miraculous was the restraint shown,
a strength of purpose, the resolve " to do it," on
the faces of all present, on the faces of the
officers as they looked after everything and
everybody, forgetting no detail for the comfort
they could give the men; on the faces of the
men when they knew what they had to face,
for I speak of a time when it was seeing them
go back to what they knew they had to face ;

not as at first when there was a certain amount
of romance about the journey, a certain spirit of
adventure, of the unknown and the unexpected.
It was a very different day when everything
that was latent and hidden was called out in