orale of the fighting body.

2. _Brotherliness_, or comradeship, shows itself in unselfish service and
cooperation with others.

3. _Generosity_ and tender-heartedness show themselves in the men's
willingness to help a comrade, to share their last rations, and to insist
that others be attended to on the battlefield before themselves when they
lie wounded. These are among the most beautiful virtues which the war
has revealed.

4. _Straightforwardness_ and genuine honesty are demanded; and all cant,
hypocrisy, double dealing, shirking, and unreality are scathingly
condemned.

5. _Persistent cheerfulness_ in the midst of monotony, drudgery,
suffering, danger, or death, is admired and maintained by the majority.
This is not incompatible with the "grousing" or grumbling which the
Englishman regards as his prerogative. This good cheer shows itself in
the inveterate singing and whistling of the men on the march.[1]

Commenting upon the virtues of the soldiers, especially the wounded, a
hospital nurse writes: "I was struck by the amount of real goodness among
the men--their generosity, kindness, chivalry, patience, and
self-sacrifice. The sins which they dislike are those sins of the spirit
which Christ denounced most bitterly--hypocrisy, pride, meanness. They
love giving, they bear pain patiently, they honor true womanhood, they
reverence goodness."

Probably no one in the present war has given a better description of the
unconscious virtues of the soldiers than has Donald Hankey, in his
chapter on "The Religion of the Inarticulate," fragments of which we here
quote:

"We never got a chance to sit down and think things out. Praying was
almost an impossibility. . . . Above all, we were not going to turn
religious at the last minute because we were afraid. . . . The soldier,
and in this case the soldier means the workingman, does not in the least
connect the things that he really believes in with Christianity. . . .
Here were men who believed absolutely in the Christian virtues of
unselfishness, generosity, charity, and humility, without ever connecting
them in their minds with Christ; and at the same time what they did
associate with Christianity was just on a par with the formalism and smug
self-righteousness which Christ spent His whole life in trying to
destroy. . . . The men really had deep-seated beliefs in goodness. . . .
They never connected the goodness in which they believed with the God in
Whom the ch