The Discipline of War / Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent

London SKEFFINGTON & SON 34, Southampton Street, Strand, W.C. Publishers to His Majesty the King 1915
The war has introduced into countless lives new conditions, and has strangely modified, or emphasised, those already existing. These Addresses, prepared under much stress of other work, are intended to supply, in very simple fashion, hints for conduct and points for thought along the lines of our fresh or deepened responsibilities. An Appendix gives a suggested subject and a passage of Scripture for each day during Lent. May God the Holy Ghost, without Whom man's best labours are in vain, bless this little book to its purpose. Please say a prayer for the writer, who, as much as any, needs grace that he may try to practise what he preaches.
J. HASLOCH POTTER.
Surbiton. The Conversion of St. Paul. 1915.
Kingston House, Clapham Common.
January 19th, 1915.
My dear Canon,—
You have invited me to say a few words introductory to the little book you are putting forth, and of which you have sent me the advance proofs.
From the great excellence of that which I have read, I am convinced that your Lenten meditations on the Discipline of War, will be of pre-eminently spiritual value in a time when publications on the subject are multiplied. That the war is to leave us on a higher plane of self-discipline, and with higher ideals of citizen life and responsibility, every Christian must acknowledge. Your little Lenten scheme is just that which is needed to give reality and action to what might otherwise be left in the realm of theory. May the Holy Spirit make use of your work to the benefit of us all and for the Glory of God.
Your sincere friend, CECIL HOOK, Bishop.
Isaiah lviii. 6
Is not this the fast that I have chosen?