Church in the Furnace: Essays by Seventeen Temporary Church of England Chaplains on Active Service in France and Flanders (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Church in the Furnace: Essays by Seventeen Temporary Church of England Chaplains on Active Service in France and Flanders<br><br>I draw attention to these facts with the hope that I may induce the meticulous critic to look upon our work with less readiness to dwell upon shortcomings which might have been avoided had the writers been able to work at leisure and with the closer co-operation that would have been possible if we had waited till the end of the war. But it would seem likely that any value the book may have will be found to lie in the fact that it has the smell of fire in it because it has been largely written in the very midst of experiences which urge men to speak the truth they see as never before in their lives.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.