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largely based on this . It was on a
afternoon service at the church , each child
stamp which could be stuck in
being given a number which , as they came into
naughty child with the penalty of not being
the children enjoyed the service , and I heard
are parents or even grandparents
they were a most delightful lot , and
it is a great joy to meet them now
on Sunday afternoon . I hope the threat
kept them good in the week , but anyway
allowed to come to the Children's Church
It was quite amusing to see how much
of parents or faithful nurses threaten any
fifty years afterwards when so many
me at once to chronicle a most intimate and
sons was just coming into the world in this year
lasting friendship begun in 1913 in Purley and
and his family , the youngest of whose three
to St. Mark's , the first contact I made was
Speaking of churchwardens and children leads
with the Vicar's Warden , Mr. F. W. Charlton
of 1913 .
continuing till old age to-day . When I went
From then till now the acquaintance ripened into a very
all the many vicissitudes of a long ministry . Mr. and
Mrs. Charlton have been from the first difficult
some tempers were easily frayed , the most
deep friendship which I have taken with me through
loyal and devoted friends .
years of war , when most lives were upset and
lived on in Purley - have always been
were in our Children's Church from the
another we do not forget .
outset , and when we don't see one
failed . Their three boys , now successful men ,
Their homes - for since those years they have
havens of rest , and the welcome has never
frequently , establishing at once a friendly contact with
at the Royal Herbert Hospital , full of war prisoners .
In those early years 1914-18 , life was very full
both in the parish and in the wider war activities .
The Bishop , knowing that I spent my holidays in
Bavaria , asked me if I would do something for two wards
the Bavarian wounded who were delighted to find
I was very glad to help in this way , and visited them
someone who knew their native villages .
scorned these more simple country folk .
I could at once notice the great antagonism
between the Bavarians and the Prussians who openly
general system of " francs-tireurs " , to be named
lead to disaster . Then there had been much talk of
Less than no response from the Russian side led
" Werewolves " .
outcome that the Nazis evidently hoped might
one to fear that the event might well have the
the setting up among the German population of a
thousand of Nazi rule , so far from creating
universally a dull bewildered apathy .
meeting of East and West was marked by
more than a fantasy . Thanks to the good
sense of the front line soldiers , the
vodka . And the effect on the German people
of the first ten years of the promised
the use of no weapon more lethal than
a spirit of warlike frenzy , had produced
The Nazi fortress concept turned out to be nothing
" Werewolves " that we had contemplated the necessity of very
special precautions to guard the lives of our airmen . Particular
and death over Germany , causing such wholesale slaughter among
So far had our thinking led us in this matter of the
men , women and children , old and young alike .
those who had , over the years , spread such ghastly havoc , destruction
hatred , we felt , was bound to be aimed at the representatives of
By the end of the month he still delighted in
is a great resource . Vesuvius seems to be tired ;
other man was a priest : here the priest is
much as his health permitted him to enjoy any-
Naples . He told Cloncurry that he enjoyed it as
1superceded by the soldier - a favourable change
fine . '
thing . ' The Pearl ' , he wrote , ' is arrived , which
people , and what a busy town . At Rome , every
# he is going out fast ... . What a gay , lively
in my eye , particularly as the troops are very
permitted him to enjoy anything . ' The Pearl ' ,
every other man was a priest : here the
he wrote , ' is arrived , which is a great
resource . Vesuvius seems to be tired ; he
priest is 1superceded by the soldier -
By the end of the month he still delighted
in Naples . He told Cloncurry that he
enjoyed it as much as his health
is going out fast ... . What a gay , lively
people , and what a busy town . At Rome ,
a favourable change in my eye ,
much as his health permitted him to enjoy anything .
By the end of the month he still delighted in
resource . Vesuvius seems to be tired ; he is going
a busy town . At Rome , every other man was a