Excerpt: ...be. Out on the battle-field there are Anglican clergy, there are Roman Catholic priests, there are ministers of the Presbyterian, the Methodist, the Baptist and other non-conformist faiths. Creed and doctrine play no part when men are gasping out a dying breath and the last message home. The chaplain carries in his heart the comfort for the man who is facing eternity. We do not want to die. We are all strong and full of life and hope and power of doing. Suddenly we are stricken beyond mortal aid. The chaplain ...
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Excerpt: ...be. Out on the battle-field there are Anglican clergy, there are Roman Catholic priests, there are ministers of the Presbyterian, the Methodist, the Baptist and other non-conformist faiths. Creed and doctrine play no part when men are gasping out a dying breath and the last message home. The chaplain carries in his heart the comfort for the man who is facing eternity. We do not want to die. We are all strong and full of life and hope and power of doing. Suddenly we are stricken beyond mortal aid. The chaplain comes and in a few phrases gives us the password, the sign which admits us to the peaceful Masonry of Christianity. Rough men pass away, hard men "go West" with a smile of peace upon their pain-tortured lips if the padre can get to them in time for the parting word, the cheerful, colloquial "best o' luck." Does the padre come to us and sanctimoniously pronounce our eternal doom should he hear us swear? The clergyman, the minister of old time, is down and out when he reaches the battle-fields of France, or any other of the fronts we are holding. No stupid tracts are handed to us, no whining and groaning, no morbid comments on the possibility of eternal damnation. No, the chaplain of to-day is a real man, maybe he always was, I don't know. A man who risks his life as do we who are in the fighting line. He has services, talks, addresses, but he never preaches. He practises all the time. Out of this war there will come a new religion. It won't be a sin any more to sing rag-time on Sunday, as it was in the days of my childhood. It won't be a sin to play a game on Sunday. After church parade in France we rushed to the playing fields behind the lines, and many a time I've seen the chaplain umpire the ball game. Many a time I've seen him take a hand in a friendly game of poker. The man who goes to France to-day will come back with a broadened mind, be he a chaplain or be he a fighter. There is no room for narrowness, for dogma or for the tenets of...
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Add this copy of Private Peat to cart. $13.50, good condition, Sold by nelsonsbooks rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chazy, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1917 by Grosset & Dunlap.
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Fair. No dust jacket. FAIR TO GOOD weak hinge's, slight corner wear. 235 p. harold r. peat ex third battalion first canadian contingent...profusely illustrated with photographic reproductions taken at the front. also with scenes from the photo-ply of the same name released by famous players lasky corporation.
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Good. No dust jacket. Private Peat by Harold R. Peat-COPYRIGHT 1917 Illustrations (Hardcover) by Harold R. Peat (Author)-BOOK REVIEWS: In this record of the author's experiences as a private in the great war he has tried to put emphasis on the things... 235 p....Private Peat by Harold R. Peat-COPYRIGHT 1917 Illustrations (Hardcover) by Harold R. Peat (Author)-BOOK REVIEWS: In this record of the author's experiences as a private in the great war he has tried to put emphasis on the things that seemed Private Peat by Harold R. Peat-COPYRIGHT 1917 Illustrations (Hardcover) by Harold R. Peat (Author)-BOOK REVIEWS: In this record of the author's experiences as a private in the great war he has tried to put emphasis on the things that seemed to him important. It is true he set out to write a book of smiles, but the seriousness of it all came back to him and crept into his pages. Yet he hopes, along with the grimness and the humor, he has been able to say some words of cheer and comfort to those in the United States who are sending their husbands, their sons and brothers into this mighty conflict. The book, unsatisfactory as it is to him now that it is finished, at least holds his honest and long considered opinions. It was not written until he could view his experiences objectively, until he was sure in his own mind that the judgments he had formed were sane and sound. He gave it to the public, hoping that something new will be found in it, despite the many personal narratives that have gone before, and confident that out of that public the many friends he has made while lecturing over the country will look on it with a lenient and kind eye. I am a collector of WWI ephemera. This book was written during the War and not several years afterwards, which is why it appealed to me. Even with the editing on his part of the atrocities of the Huns, Peat's views come through as to the war and conditions. The Triple Entente is good and the Huns are bad. He is a Canadian and enlisted in 1914. The last several chapters implore the U.S. population not to listen to German propaganda about Great Britain, their level of participation in the War, and the Home Rule issue for Ireland. Read it for a first hand account of actions and feelings of a WWI soldier.
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Good++ Book With ads. Canadian soldier's experiences in World War I. Verticalwrinkle front cover. Pencilled & inked notes up front b/w photos. good++, no dj, brown-stamped lightly soiled beige cloth. Tight 235+ pgs.
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Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cover bumped with rubbed edges and price sticker inside back. Notes in front. Out of print. Margins of pages lightly tanning.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Includes illustrations. photographs. Book Condition: Good-Very Good. Reading copy. Cover very slightly rubbed otherwise clean. Clean interior pages.
