ABSTRACT
A large number of the younger clergy became army chaplains. In this way they at once obtained the very satisfactory status of commissioned officers. The former have killed many more Christians and many more clergy than the latter, and have successfully abolished Christianity over large areas. It cannot even be claimed that the Turks, being good Muslims, are preferable to the infidel Bolsheviks. The Society of Friends is the only religious body which has come out of the war with an enhanced reputation. A pacifism which often took the form of mine-sweeping, or driving ambulances under fire, earned the respect of the soldiers. The authorities of the Church had to fear a Russian victory and the break-up of Austria. The latter event has lost them millions of adherents in Czecho-Slovakia; the former would have lost them millions in Poland, which has celebrated its independence by rooting out the Orthodox Church.
