Chancellor Lloyd George has contributed a message to the London
_Methodist Times_, in which he says:
"I recently visited one of the battlefields of France. I saw in a
village being shelled by German guns a prisoner of war just being
brought into the French line. He was in a motor car under guard. He
was wounded and looked ill and in pain.
"The French General with whom I had gone to the front went up to the
wounded Prussian and told him he need not worry; he would be taken
straight to the hospital and looked after as if he were one of our
own men. The Prussian replied, 'We treated your wounded in exactly
the same way.'
"It was a curious rivalry under these conditions; for you could
hear the 'wizzle' of the German shells and the shuddering crack
with which they exploded, dealing out death and destruction in the
French trenches close by. We were in sight of a powerful French
battery which was preparing to send its deadly messengers into the
Prussian ranks.
"A little further on I marvelled that this exhibition of good
will among men who were sworn foes should be possible amid such
surroundings, until my eyes happened to wander down a lane where I
saw a long row of wagons, each marked with a great red cross. Then I
knew who had taught these brave men the lesson of humanity that will
gradually, surely overthrow the reign of hate. Christ did not die in
vain."